Pip·ing a.
 1. Playing on a musical pipe. “Lowing herds and piping swains.”
 2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
 3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
 4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.
 Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller Zool., any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. Gymnorhina tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck.
 Piping frog Zool., a small American tree frog (Hyla Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring.
 Piping hot, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.]


 Gymnorhina tibicen
      n : crow-sized black-and-white bird; a good mimic often caged
          [syn: piping crow, piping crow-shrike]