"pipe down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-pipe down.ogg [Australia] 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. Etymology templates: {{m|en|lay the pipe}} 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 Categories (topical): Silence, Talking Synonyms: be quiet, stop talking Translations (To refrain from being noisy): هَدَأَ (hadaʔa) (Arabic), beruhigen (German), herunterfahren (German)
    Sense id: en-pipe_down-en-verb-TTNYOlVn Disambiguation of Silence: 86 6 9 Disambiguation of Talking: 56 11 34 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (down), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 7 32 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 58 12 30 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (down): 56 13 31 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 56 14 30 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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