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A P-trap is an elbow inside a drain that is designed to hold water to prevent sewer gases from making it back up the sink. The trap then empties into the drain line at the wall, perpendicular to the sink drain (looking like the letter "P" turned face down). Use with the [plumbing] and [drain] tags

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