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/pɛpəˈɹəʊni/ · noun
A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper..
He gave the dog a treat — a dried up skinny, turdy looking, pepperoni sausage.
She and her two best friends are choreographing a number for the talent show; she’s applied to California Institute of the Arts; and she flirts unabashedly with a cute pizza server. (The better to land a couple of extra pepperonis on her slice without an upcharge.)
Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.
There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.
Use pepperoni when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pepperoni means A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper..
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He gave the dog a treat — a dried up skinny, turdy looking, pepperoni sausage.
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