Meaning of pepper | Babel Free

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1. A plant of the family Piperaceae
2. A surname originating as an occupation for a seller of pepper.
3. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
   countable, uncountable
4. A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant
5. the berry of the pepper plant. peperkorrel حُبوب الفُلْفُل зърно пипер grão de pimenta zrnko pepře das Pfefferkorn peberkorn κόκκος πιπεριού grano de pimienta pipar دانه فلفل pippuri grain de poivre גַרגִיר פִּלפֵּל मिर्च का दाना zrno papra borsszem buah lada piparkorn granello di pepe こしょうの実 후추 열매 pipiro grūdelis pipara graudiņš lada biji peperkorrelpepperkorn ziarnko pieprzu دتورو مرچو دانې grão de pimenta boabă de piper зернышко перца, перчинка zrnko čierneho korenia poprovo zrno zrno bibe...
6. A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
   uncountable
7. 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.
   Canada, Ireland, UK, US, countable, uncountable
8. 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
9. a small container in which peppercorns are ground into a powder. pepermeul مَطْحَنَة الفُلْفُل мелачка moinho de pimenta mlýnek na pepř die Pfeffermühle peberkværn μύλος πιπεριούmolinillo de pimienta pipraveski فلفل ساب pippurimylly moulin à poivre מַטחֶנַת פִּלפֵּל बर्तन जिसमें मिर्च के बीज पीसे जाते हैं mlin borsdaráló gilingan lada piparkvörn macinino per pepe こしょうひき 후추 빻는 기구 pipirmalė piparu dzirnaviņas pengisar lada pepermolenpepperkvern młynek do pieprzu د مرچو ميچن moinho de pimenta râ...
10. 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
11. A perennial climbing vine (Piper nigrum) native to India, widely cultivated for its long slender spikes of small fruit.
    (Piper nigrum)
12. 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.
    countable, uncountable
13. 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
14. Any of several other plants of the genus Piper, such as cubeb, betel, and kava.
    Piper,
15. A beating; a thrashing.
    countable, slang, uncountable
16. Any of several tropical American, cultivated varieties of capsicum, having podlike, many-seeded, fruit.
17. A shotgun.
    Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable
18. Any of various condiments made from the more pungent varieties of capsicum, such as cayenne pepper, tabasco pepper, and chili. Also called hot pepper.
    hot pepper
19. Any of various other plants producing pungent fruits, such as the Szechuan pepper.
20. Baseball A warm-up exercise in which players standing a short distance from a batter field the ball and toss it to the batter, who hits each toss back to the fielders. Also called pepper game.
    Baseball
21. To season or sprinkle with pepper.
22. To sprinkle liberally; scatter: peppered the confetti over the street.

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Examples

“Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".”

“He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style.”

“[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.”

“Chew beef like breakfast (Yum) Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two) Be feeding my area, peppers”

“Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppers”

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