pipe down

pipe down
verb
become quiet or quieter
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The audience fell silent when the speaker entered

• Syn: ↑quieten, ↑hush, ↑quiet, ↑quiesce, ↑quiet down
• Ant: ↑louden (for: ↑quieten)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑quiescent (for: ↑quiesce), ↑quiet (for: ↑quiet), ↑hush (for: ↑hush)
• Hypernyms: ↑change intensity
• Verb Group: ↑hush, ↑quieten, ↑silence, ↑still, ↑shut up, ↑hush up
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

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[verb]
be quiet, hold one's tongue, hush, quieten down, shush, shut one's mouth, shut up (informal)

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BE QUIET, be silent, hush, stop talking, hold one's tongue; informal shut up, shut one's mouth, button it, button one's lip, belt up, put a sock in it.
→ pipe

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intransitive verb
1. : to dismiss sailors from an activity by a pipe call
2. : to become quiet : stop talking

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pipe down
1. To subside into silence
2. To stop talking or be quiet (informal)
3. To dismiss (a ship's company) from muster (the final order of the day)
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Main Entry: ↑pipe

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ˌpipe ˈdown [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they pipe down he/she/it pipes down present participle piping down past tense piped down past participle piped down] spoken phrasal verb
used for telling someone to stop talking or to make less noise
Thesaurus: ways of telling someone to stop talking or to be quietsynonym
Main entry: pipe

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[often in imperative] informal stop talking; be less noisy

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pipe down [phrasal verb]
informal : to become quiet : to stop talking

The teacher told the students to pipe down. [=quiet down]

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Main Entry: ↑pipe

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ˌpipe ˈdown derived
(informal) used especially in orders, to tell sb to stop talking or to be less noisy
Main entry: ↑pipederived

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  • pipe down — {v.} 1. To call (sailors) away from work with a whistle. * /He piped the men down after boat drill./ 2. {slang} To stop talking; shut up; be quiet. * / Oh, pipe down, he called./ Often considered rude …   Dictionary of American idioms

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  • pipe down — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms pipe down : present tense I/you/we/they pipe down he/she/it pipes down present participle piping down past tense piped down past participle piped down spoken used for telling someone to stop talking or to… …   English dictionary

  • pipe down — PHRASAL VERB: no cont, usu imper If you tell someone who is talking a lot or talking too loudly to pipe down, you are telling them to stop talking. [INFORMAL] [V P] Just pipe down and I ll tell you what I want …   English dictionary

  • pipe down — in. to become quiet; to cease making noise; to shut up. (Especially as a rude command.) □ Pipe down! I’m trying to sleep. □ Come on! Pipe down and get back to work! …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • pipe down — verb To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy. Pipe down kids, Im trying to work. Syn: quiet, shut up Ant: pipe up …   Wiktionary

  • pipe\ down — v 1. To call (sailors) away from work with a whistle. He piped the men down after boat drill. 2. slang To stop talking; shut up; be quiet. Oh, pipe down, he called. Often considered rude …   Словарь американских идиом

  • pipe down — do not be so noisy, be quiet, keep it down    The teacher opened the door and said, Pipe down, Grade 7 …   English idioms

  • pipe down — informal we had to ask that couple in the first row to pipe down Syn: be quiet, be silent, hush, stop talking, hold one s tongue, settle down; informal shut up, shut one s mouth, zip it, button it, button one s lip, put a sock in it …   Thesaurus of popular words

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