"pipe down" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-pipe down.ogg Forms: pipes down [present, singular, third-person], piping down [participle, present], piped down [participle, past], piped down [past]
Etymology: The sex sense is related to lay the pipe. Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pipe down (third-person singular simple present pipes down, present participle piping down, simple past and past participle piped down)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (To refrain from being noisy): هَدَأَ (hadaʔa) (Arabic), beruhigen (German), herunterfahren (German), zamykać się [imperfective] (Polish), zamknąć się [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-pipe_down-en-verb-TTNYOlVn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "down", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Polish translations, Silence, Talking Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 9 31 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "down": 56 12 32 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 55 12 34 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 62 5 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 63 4 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 57 13 30 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 54 14 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 51 17 33 Disambiguation of Silence: 90 5 5 Disambiguation of Talking: 50 26 24 Synonyms: belt up, button it, button one's lip, back that train up, can it, clam up, cork it, dummy up, hush down, hush one's mouth, pipe down, put a lid on it, put a sock in it, shaddap, shut it, shut one's big bazoo, shut one's cake hole, shut one's face, shut one's gob, shut one's head, shut one's mouth, shut one's pie hole, shut one's trap, shut one's yap, shut the front door, shut up, STFU, stick a sock in it, stuff a sock in it, wind one's neck in, zip it, zip one's lip Disambiguation of 'To refrain from being noisy': 92 8 1
  2. (transitive) To dismiss from muster, as a ship's company. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-pipe_down-en-verb-~Pt2DiPz
  3. (slang, transitive) Of a man, to have penetrative sex with a woman. Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-pipe_down-en-verb-DOFC-zND

Inflected forms

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        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy."
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "belt up"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "button it"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "button one's lip"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "back that train up"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "can it"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "clam up"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "cork it"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "put a lid on it"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "put a sock in it"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shaddap"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut it"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut one's big bazoo"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut one's cake hole"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut one's face"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut one's gob"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
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          "word": "shut one's mouth"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut one's pie hole"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut one's trap"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut one's yap"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut the front door"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut up"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "stick a sock in it"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "stuff a sock in it"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "wind one's neck in"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "zip it"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "zip one's lip"
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          "roman": "hadaʔa",
          "sense": "To refrain from being noisy",
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          "code": "de",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "To refrain from being noisy",
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          "sense": "To refrain from being noisy",
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        "To dismiss from muster, as a ship's company."
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        "(transitive) To dismiss from muster, as a ship's company."
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          "text": "G-money aggressively pulled Coco's hair, as he delivered powerful strokes to her love tunnel. He then slid his fingers in her mouth, as he continued to pipe her down. Coco sucked and licked G-money's fingers as she took the back shots like a soldier.",
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        "(slang, transitive) Of a man, to have penetrative sex with a woman."
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
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          "word": "back that train up"
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          "word": "can it"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "pipe down"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "put a sock in it"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:stop talking",
          "word": "shut one's big bazoo"
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      "sense": "To refrain from being noisy",
      "word": "هَدَأَ"
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      "sense": "To refrain from being noisy",
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      "sense": "To refrain from being noisy",
      "word": "herunterfahren"
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