Definition of "piccolo" [pic•co•lo]

• A small flute pitched an octave above a regular flute. (noun)
• Of, relating to, or being a musical instrument considerably smaller than the usual size: a piccolo trumpet; a piccolo concertina. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I don't care who called the piccolo player a MoFo, I just want to know who called that MoFo a piccolo player!"
• "She also used this masterful reasoning to determine (wrongly) that the piccolo is a member of the percussion family."
• "Strains of “Der Fuehrer’s Face” by Spike Jones and His City Slickers ran through my mind and I chuckled without meaning to as the image of Göring on piccolo from the German oom-pah band in Disney’s “Donald Duck in Nutzi Land” popped unbidden into my head."