pipe down

Speech parts

1. pipe down - Verb

2. pipe down - Phrase

Meaning

become quiet or quieter

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

quiet hush shut up quiesce quieten put a sock in it quiet down chill out still hist shush shut silence muzzle clam
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Antonyms

pipe up yap twitter jabber maunder yak
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Hypernyms

change intensity

Examples

Pipe down Mr Indignation. We'll see what the viewers thought of your double standards, your indignation about me and the aplomb with which you become a lying plutocrat in your gentleman's club. George Galloway

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created. Steve Harvey

The audience fell silent when the speaker entered Source: Internet

One of the boys reportedly jammed a PVC pipe down the crocodile’s throat. Source: Internet

In this process, the rain water is centralised through a pipe down to the tanks. Source: Internet

The city council will vote at its next meeting whether to go with that plan or whether to put a new, 24-inch pipe down the center of Pennsylvania Avenue to carry storm water (sanitary sewer would use the existing pipe). Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

pipe down

Close letter words and terms

pipe deburring tool pipe descaler pipe dope pipe dream pipe dreaming pipe expander