pipe down

verb

To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy.

“Pipe down, children. I'm trying to work.”

Similar
belt upbutton itbutton one's lipback that train upcan itclam upcork itdummy up
Opposite
pipe up
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Meanings

verbpipe down (third-person singular simple present pipes down, present participle piping down, simple past and past participle piped down)

present singular third person pipes down · participle present piping down · participle past piped down · past piped down

  1. idiomaticintransitiveTo be quiet; to refrain from being noisy.

    Pipe down, children. I'm trying to work.

    Synonyms: belt up, button it, button one's lip, back that train up, can it, clam up, cork it, dummy up · Antonyms: pipe up

  2. transitiveTo dismiss from muster, as a ship's company.
  3. slangtransitiveOf a man, to have penetrative sex with a woman.

    Michael hurry up bro me and my girl wanna go home so I can pipe her down.

    2020 November 10, Ladell Parks, Heaven Empire, Ladell Parks
    1 more example

    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.

    2019 December 23, Damont L. Diggs, Wait, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo be quiet; to refrain from being noisy.

Similar
belt upbutton itbutton one's lipback that train upcan itclam upcork itdummy uphush downhush one's mouthput a lid on itput a sock in itshaddapshut itshut one's big bazooshut one's cake holeshut one's faceshut one's gobshut one's head
Opposite
pipe up

More synonyms by meaning

verbbecome quiet or quieter

Similar
quietenhushquietquiescequiet downsilence
Broader
change intensity
Also see
be quiethushquiescequietquiet downquietenshut one's gobshut up

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

The sex sense is related to lay the pipe.

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Translations

Arabic هَدَأَ
  • هَدَأَ (hadaʔa)To refrain from being noisy
German beruhigen, herunterfahren
  • beruhigenTo refrain from being noisy
  • herunterfahrenTo refrain from being noisy
Polish zamykać się, zamknąć się
  • zamykać sięTo refrain from being noisy
  • zamknąć sięTo refrain from being noisy
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APA

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“pipe down.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pipe%20down. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pipe down,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pipe%20down.

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