PIPE DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pipe down mean? 

• PIPE DOWN (verb)
  The verb PIPE DOWN has 1 sense:

1. become quiet or quieter

  Familiarity information: PIPE DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPE DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become quiet or quieter

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

hush; pipe down; quiesce; quiet; quiet down; quieten

Context example:

The audience fell silent when the speaker entered

Hypernyms (to "pipe down" is one way to...):

change intensity (increase or decrease in intensity)

Verb group:

hush; hush up; quieten; shut up; silence; still (cause to be quiet or not talk)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had opened the morning paper and was immersed in a sensational crime which had occurred in London the night before, when my friend gave an exclamation, sprang to his feet, and laid his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)