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put someone's pipe out

put someone's pipe out verb: to scupper someone's plans.

Verb

put someone's pipe out (third-person singular simple present puts someone's pipe out, present participle putting someone's pipe out, simple past and past participle put someone's pipe out)

  1. (UK, archaic, slang) To scupper someone's plans.
    • “I'll tell you something, too,” retorted the captain, duskily flushing. “I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now.”
      “I can tell you the names of a number of gentlemen you'll never deal with any more, and that's the whole of...1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in The Wrecker

Forms of put someone's pipe out

third-person singular presentputs someone's pipe out
present participleputting someone's pipe out
past participleput someone's pipe out
pastput someone's pipe out

Questions about put someone's pipe out

What does put someone's pipe out mean?
Put someone's pipe out means to scupper someone's plans.
What part of speech is put someone's pipe out?
Put someone's pipe out is a verb.
What is the past tense of put someone's pipe out?
The past tense of put someone's pipe out is put someone's pipe out.

Words near put someone's pipe out in the dictionary

  1. put someone under the screw
  2. put someone wise
  3. put someone's back up
  4. put someone's light out
  5. put someone's lights out
  6. put someone's pipe out
  7. put something behind one
  8. put something down to experience
  9. put something into perspective
  10. put something over
  11. put spurs to

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