Pipe off

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To watch (a person or building) for purposes of theft. dated, slang, transitive

    "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."

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