pipe down
Third Person
pipes down
Present Participle
piping down
Past Tense
piped down
Past Participle
piped down
1
to stop talking or making noise
- Whenever the teacher enters, the students usually pipe down.
- The moment the principal stepped onto the stage yesterday, the assembly piped down.
- I can't hear the movie because the kids are not piping down.
- If the noise continues, I'll ask them to pipe down.
- The birds have piped down since the rain started.
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2
to cause someone or something to become quiet
- The teacher tried to pipe down the noisy classroom by turning off the lights momentarily.
- When the argument between the two colleagues became too heated, their supervisor stepped in to pipe them down.
- She piped down the alarm clock by pressing the snooze button.
- At the rock concert, the lead singer attempted to pipe down the enthusiastic crowd so he could speak.
- As the movie started, an usher came in to pipe down a group of teenagers who were chatting loudly at the back.