piper

noun8

1. •
   a person who makes music by blowing air into a long thin object with holes in it
2. •
   A bagpiper.

   • At Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, the sounding of train horns was followed by a lone piper playing When the Battle's Over. — 2020
3. •
   (slang) A person who smokes crack cocaine.

   • On one occasion after returning from vacation one of the 'pipers' (crack addicts) as they were called, was in my kitchen cooking. That was the last straw. — 2025
4. •
   A baby pigeon.
5. •
   A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
6. •
   A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
7. •
   A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
8. •
   (slang, no longer used) A broken-winded hack horse.

noun1

1. •
   An airplane made by Piper.

   • Replacing side windows on a Beech or Cessna or Piper airplane is an awful job — 2020