Stop talking, be quiet, as in I wish you children would pipe down. This idiom is also used as an imperative, as in Pipe down! We want to listen to the opera. It comes from the navy, where the signal for all hands to turn in was sometimes sounded on a whistle or pipe. By 1900 it had been transferred to more general use.
pipe down
| Idioms: pipe down |
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The verb has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
become quiet or quieter
Synonyms: quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down
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