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Pipe down   /paɪp daʊn/   Listen
Pipe down

verb
1.
Become quiet or quieter.  Synonyms: hush, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten.  Antonym: louden.






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"Pipe down" Quotes from Famous Books



... Southwest Review, Dallas, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1 (Winter, 1953). Maybe some day some man or woman with means will see the light of civilized patriotism and underwrite the publication of these great volumes. Patriotism that does not act to promote the beautiful, the true, and the good had better pipe down. ...
— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie

... so many mossbacks throwing brickbats? What does it matter if some of the stories are not on the scientific chalk line? A very wise man once said that "Variety is the spice of life," so why not take a hint, some of you would-be brickbat pitchers, and pipe down? ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... the devil himself for all the good it will bring," growled Buckrow. "This ain't none of your affair, Mr. Thirkle, and I'll thank ye to pipe down and wait until we ...
— The Devil's Admiral • Frederick Ferdinand Moore

... uncle; "you want to pipe down now, do you? But that won't do. Off you go! and mind you don't set foot in Pompadour Hall," Mr. Meeson's seat, "unless it is to get ...
— Mr. Meeson's Will • H. Rider Haggard

... care to pipe down, just then. This was the first time they had ever seen a gale at sea, and there was something grand and sublime in the heaving ocean, and the wild winds that danced madly over the white-crested waves. It was ...
— Outward Bound - Or, Young America Afloat • Oliver Optic



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