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pipe down

verb
  1. To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy. (intransitive) · Pipe down, children. I'm trying to work.
  2. To dismiss from muster, as a ship's company. (transitive)
  3. Of a man, to have penetrative sex with a woman. (slang, transitive)
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I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 18 · B2

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