piping hot

1. 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]

Example Sentences

Delicious, especially if you enjoy your schadenfreude served piping hot.

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In fact, a massive round metal object had plummeted from above landing on farmland near a dry riverbed - and it was piping hot.

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Thursday mornings at La Princesita Tortilleria in East Los Angeles are devoted to making chips, so customers couldn’t get any piping hot tortillas when I visited last week.

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“The idea is to offer athletes the chance to grab a piping hot baguette for breakfast,” said baker Tony Doré, who will be working at the Olympic Village’s main restaurant.

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The demonstration includes a mini flour mill to grind wheat kernels, an example of a water well, and a piping hot oven.

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Related Words

• blistering 
• boiling 
• red-hot 
• scorching 
• searing 
• sizzling 
• sweltering