pepper
12 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural
peppers
plural
peppers
Britannica Dictionary definition of PEPPER
1
[noncount]
:
a food seasoning that is made by grinding the dried berries of an Indian plant along with their hard, black covers
:
black pepper
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see also cayenne pepper, salt-and-pepper, white pepper
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Please pass the salt and pepper.
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freshly ground pepper
2
[count]
:
a hollow vegetable that is usually red, green, or yellow and that is eaten raw or cooked
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see color picture on this page;
see also bell pepper, green pepper, red pepper, sweet pepper
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The steak was served with peppers and onions.
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Be careful handling hot peppers.
2
pepper
/ˈpɛpɚ/
verb
peppers;
peppered;
peppering
2
pepper
/ˈpɛpɚ/
verb
peppers;
peppered;
peppering
Britannica Dictionary definition of PEPPER
[+ object]
:
to add pepper to (food)
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You need to pepper the stew more.
pepper with
[phrasal verb]
1
pepper (someone or something) with (something)
:
to hit (someone) repeatedly with your fists or with objects
— often used figuratively
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The boxer peppered his opponent with punches.
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The goalie was peppered with shots.
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The reporters peppered her with questions. [=the reporters asked her a lot of questions]
2
pepper (something) with (something)
a
:
to put a small amount of (something) on many different parts of (a surface)
— usually used as (be) peppered with
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His face is peppered with freckles. [=he has freckles on many different parts of his face]
b
:
to put something in many places in (a story, speech, etc.)
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She peppered the report with statistics.
