Pepper

Quick meaning: Pepper is a noun meaning A plant of the family Piperaceae.

Meaning

A plant of the family Piperaceae.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
2. (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing.
3. (MLE, slang) A shotgun.
4. (transitive) To add pepper to.
5. (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.
6. (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
7. (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.

Example Sentences

Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.

He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.

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

Word Forms

• peppers
• peppering
• peppered

Synonyms for pepper

Depending on context, synonyms include capsicum, pelt, peppercorn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peppercorn, capsicum, pelt, spice, chili, cayenne.

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