Hot crew filling pipe (8)
I believe the answer is:
steaming
'hot' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'crew filling pipe' is the wordplay.
'crew' becomes 'team' (I've seen this before).
'filling' is an insertion indicator.
'pipe' becomes 'sing' (pipe can mean to sing or chirp).
'team' inserted into 'sing' is 'STEAMING'.
(Other definitions for steaming that I've seen before include "Cooking with vapour" , "Emitting moisture in the form of vapour" , "Emitting vapour - drunk - moving rapidly through a crowd stealing" , "Very hot; angry" , "Very angry; cooking" .)