pepper

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Synonyms: peeper, popper, hepper, pepped, peppier, pipper, depper, lepper, prepper, tepper, perper

Antonyms: peeper, popper, hepper, pepped, peppier, pipper, depper, lepper, prepper, tepper, perper

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Noun

1. A plant of the family {{taxfmt|Piperaceae|family}}.
2. {{lb|en|uncountable}} A [[spice]] prepared from the [[ferment]]ed, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
3. {{senseid|en|any of various Capsicum varieties; their fruit}} {{lb|en|UK|US|Ireland|and|Canada}} 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. {{lb|en|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. {{lb|en|cryptography}} A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to [[hash]]ing. Unlike a [[salt]], a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
6. {{lb|en|boxing|slang}} A [[beating]]; a [[thrashing]].
7. {{lb|en|MLE|slang}} A [[shotgun|shotgun]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To add pepper to.
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To strike with something made up of small particles.
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To add (something) at frequent intervals.
5. {{lb|en|transitive|slang}} To [[beat]] or [[thrash]]. <!--see John Camden Hotten's ''Slang Dictionary'' (1873)-->
6. {{lb|en|cryptography}} To use a pepper {{gl|type of value used prior to hashing}}.
7. {{lb|en|transitive|MLE|slang}} To [[shoot]] (upon) with the [[dotty]].
8. {{lb|en|transitive|slang}} To write [[accent]]s or [[disambiguate|disambiguating]] [[marks]] in [[script]].

Proper noun

1. {{surname|en|from=occupations}} for a seller of [[pepper]].

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