Meaning

A plant of the family Piperaceae..

Definitions by Sense

1. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
2. (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
3. (UK, US, Ireland and Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
4. (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
5. (cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
6. (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing.
7. (MLE, slang) A shotgun.
8. (transitive) To add pepper to.

Example Sentences

Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.

[T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.

Chew beef like breakfast (Yum) Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two) Be feeding my area, peppers

Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppers

After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.

He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.

I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me

Word Forms

• peppers
• piper
• peppering
• peppered

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When Should You Use Pepper?

Use pepper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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