pepper
/ˈpɛp.ɚ/ noun A2- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- 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 · Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".
- 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.
- A beating; a thrashing.
- A shotgun.
Plural peppers
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Ralph, a little wrinkled old fellow, was in the conventional costume of black coat and pepper-and-salt trousers, with only one curious variant.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
“When _I’m_ a Duchess,” she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen _at all_.
Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.
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