Serve the soup piping hot.piping1 nounpiping2 adverb
pipingpip‧ing1 /ˈpaɪpɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] 
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- It can also be used to cut frozen food, formica, perspex and plastic piping.
- Note gold piping, and cuff button arrangement.
- On the exhaust side, stainless steel piping was run to a large lorry exhaust on one mudguard.
- Pin, tack and stitch along the remaining three sides, including frill or piping, if using.
- The best thing to do with lead piping is to rip it all out and replace it with copper or plastic.
- Wearing breathing apparatus they were a few feet into the building when overhead piping collapsed, trapping them.
- Yellow is the official colour of the United States Cavalry, used in the piping of uniforms and on regimental standards.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a thin tube of cloth, usually with string inside, sewn onto clothing, furniture etc as decoration2several pipes, or a system of pipes, used to send liquid or gas in or out of a building (=used about food that is nice and hot) Serve the soup piping hot.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN Serve the soup piping hot.· The best thing to do with lead piping is to rip it all out and replace it with copper or plastic.· Some detail about old lead piping.
piping1 nounpiping2 adverb
pipingpiping2 adverb EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- An individual pie, topped with vanilla ice cream, is served piping hot to your table.
- It's piping brown neutrality made me sick as a boy and it makes me sick still.
- The chefs prepare your selections as you order them so they're served piping hot.
Longman Language Activatorfood/drink
· The soup's very hot. Let it cool down a bit.· The waitress set down a pot of hot tea and a plate of cakes.· Dozens of volunteers serve hot meals to 200 homeless people every night.
food that is piping hot has just been cooked and is very hot, especially in a way that makes it seem good to eat: · Heat the fish under a grill and serve piping hot.· She handed him a piping hot bread roll and a steaming cup of coffee.
a drink or a food such as soup that is steaming or steaming hot is very hot, so that you can see the steam coming from it: · Cooper held a steaming mug of coffee.· The soup was served steaming hot in a large bowl.
a drink that is scalding or scalding hot is so hot that it hurts your mouth if you try to drink it: · I burned my mouth on the scalding hot coffee.· a cup of scalding tea
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=used about food that is nice and hot) Serve the soup piping hot.
Serve the soup piping hot.PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
piping hot piping hot liquid or food is very hot: - An individual pie, topped with vanilla ice cream, is served piping hot to your table.
- Food should not be too hot, however, so you should avoid serving piping hot boiled meals.
- Or how the mayonnaise melted into a piping hot baked potato?
- Stir the clams into the sauce and heat for a further 1-2min until piping hot. 4.
- The chefs prepare your selections as you order them so they're served piping hot.
- There was a fruit pie of some sort with delicious crust pastry - each helping covered with freshly made piping hot custard.
- They arrive at the table still piping hot from the pan with an exterior that is crisp and light.
- To keep things piping hot and juicy, the meats are served on heated plates.
piping hot coffee