1 [mass noun] a pungent hot-tasting powder prepared from dried and ground peppercorns, used as a spice or condiment to flavour food:season to taste with salt and pepper
a reddish hot-tasting spice prepared from various forms of capsicum.
2a capsicum, especially a sweet pepper.
3a climbing vine with berries that are dried as black or white peppercorns.
Piper nigrum, family Piperaceae
used in names of other plants which are related or similar to the pepper, e.g. Jamaica pepper, water pepper.
Piper nigrum, family Piperaceae
4 Baseball a practice game in which a fielder throws at close range to a batter who hits back to the fielder:he liked to play pepper
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Universal
1 (usually as adjective peppered) sprinkle or season (food) with pepper:peppered beef
2 (usually be peppered with) cover or fill with a liberal amount of scattered items:the script is peppered with four-letter words
hit repeatedly with small missiles or gunshot:another burst of enemy bullets peppered his defenceless body
archaic inflict severe punishment or suffering upon:if he finds out my haunts he swears he’ll pepper me
