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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She carried the pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once.
“Pepper, mostly,” said the cook.
Ralph, a little wrinkled old fellow, was in the conventional costume of black coat and pepper-and-salt trousers, with only one curious variant.
Its frosty pepper up my nose.
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