Definition of "pepper"

pepper

/ˈpɛpə/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural peppers
1. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
2. (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
3. (UK, US, Ireland and Canada) A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
4. (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
5. (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.
6. (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing.
  Quotations
  He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.
  1906, Henry Downes Miles, Pugilistica, page 61
  [T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.
  1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848
7. (MLE, slang) A shotgun.
  Quotations
  Chew beef like breakfast (Yum)Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two)Be feeding my area, peppers
  2017 January 17, “Kennington Where It Started”, Biz of Harlem Spartans (lyrics)‎, 0:28
  Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppers
  2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics)‎, 3:24
verb
third-person singular simple present peppers, present participle peppering, simple past and past participle peppered
1. (transitive) To add pepper to.
2. (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
3. (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
4. (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
5. (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.
  Quotations
  I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me
  c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
6. (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot (upon) with the dotty.

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