Usually means: Settle in for the night.
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  1. bed down: Merriam-Webster
  2. bed down: Vocabulary.com
  3. bed down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. bed down: Wiktionary
  5. bed down: Dictionary.com
  6. bed down: Rhymezone
  7. bed down: FreeDictionary.org
  8. bed down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. bed down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. bed down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bed down: Legal dictionary

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  1. bed down: Medical dictionary

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  1. bed down: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (bed down)

verb:  (intransitive) To lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery, or of people when sleeping somewhere worse than normal, often camping or in prison.
verb:  (transitive) To put an animal to rest for the night.
verb:  (transitive) To sleep with or sleep alongside (a person or pet).
verb:  (figurative) To become permanent, fixed or embedded to a particular setup, way of thinking, style or manner.

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