a long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a noisy call

any bird of the Australasian butcherbird family, having black-and-white plumage and musical calls

used figuratively to refer to a person who obsessively collects things or who chatters idly

his father was a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie

he would carry these documents home to appease his secretive magpie instinct

the division of a circular target next to the outer one, or a shot which strikes this