EGAVE

pepper

About 6.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A plant of the family Piperaceae.
  2. noun A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
  3. noun A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
  4. noun 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".
  5. noun 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. noun A beating; a thrashing.
  7. noun A shotgun.
  8. verb To add pepper to.

Similar words

black pepper peppercorn white pepper capsicum pelt capsicum pepper plant common pepper madagascar pepper piper nigrum spice

Often followed by

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Word family

peppered pepperer pepperers peppering peppers

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