Definition of "piccolo"

piccolo

/ˈpɪkələʊ/

noun
plural piccolos or piccoli
1. (music, obsolete) A piccolo piano.
2. A piccolo flute A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
3. (music, rare) An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
4. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
  Quotations
  [A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.
  1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Soul of Laploshka”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], page 71
5. (US, chiefly Southern US and New York) A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
6. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.
adjective
1. Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.
  Quotations
  There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.
  1945, Christian Darnton, You and Music‎, 2nd edition, New York: Pelican Books, retrieved 20 February 2022, page 65