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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)
- (UK, slang, archaic) To scupper someone's plans.
1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in The Wrecker:“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 Longhurst's gang,” said Jim. “I'll put your pipe out in that quarter, my friend. Here, rout out your traps as quick as look at it, and take your vermin along with you. I'll have a captain in, this very night, that's a sailor, and some sailors to work for him.”
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References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary