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Idioms and Phrases
Very hot, as in These biscuits are piping hot . This idiom alludes to something so hot that it makes a piping or hissing sound. [Late 1300s]Discover More
Example Sentences
Latkes are best served piping hot, so I save the frying process for last.
There was a mingled odour of foods, piping hot, and over all the grateful aroma from half a dozen coffee-pots.
With a hot stew, there is nothing more palatable than a stack of piping hot biscuits cooked in a spider over a bed of red embers.
He thrust his hand into the boot and withdrew one of poor Thomasin's precious guineas, piping hot.
I cooked them myself in the white-tiled kitchen, and served them piping hot in a bowl with crackers.
Roll well in meal, or a mixture of meal and flour, and fry to a rich brown in pork fat, piping hot.
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