I get friend to hide it from parrot (7)
I believe the answer is:
imitate
'parrot' is the definition.
(to parrot is to copy or imitate)
'i get friend to hide it' is the wordplay.
'get' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'friend' becomes 'mate' (mate is a kind of friend).
'to hide' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'mate' enclosing 'it' is 'mitate'.
'i'+'mitate'='IMITATE'
'from' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for imitate that I've seen before include "Appear like, in behaviour or appearance" , "Copy, simulate" , "Copy or mimic" , "I tame it to copy it" , "I ate Tim! (anag.)" .)