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piping off

piping off is the present participle and gerund of pipe off.

Meaning of pipe off

Verb

pipe off (third-person singular simple present pipes off, present participle piping off, simple past and past participle piped off)

  1. (dated, slang, transitive) To watch (a person or building) for purposes of theft.
    • To put the matter to further test, on the succeeding night other of their men were instructed to "pipe off" the place still more cautiously. But these too were discovered by Miles's vigilant but bogus police, given chase to, and unmercifully clubbed.1900, Allan Pinkerton, Professional Thieves and the Detective

Questions about piping off

What is piping off the present participle and gerund of?
Piping off is the present participle and gerund of pipe off.

Words near piping off in the dictionary

  1. piping bellbird
  2. piping bellbirds
  3. piping down
  4. piping hot
  5. piping in
  6. piping off
  7. piping one's eye
  8. piping plover
  9. piping plovers
  10. piping shrike
  11. piping shrikes

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