1 [U] a grey or pale yellow powder made from dried berries (called PEPPERCORNS), used to give a hot flavour to food:
Season with salt and pepper * freshly ground pepper * black / white pepper
seealsoCAYENNE
2 [C,U] (BrE) (AmE bell pepper) a hollow fruit, usually red, green or yellow, eaten as a vegetable either raw or cooked
verb [VN] to put pepper on food:
peppered steak * Salt and pepper the potatoes.
PHRASALVERBS
pepper sb/sth with sth [usuallypassive] to hit sb/sth with a series of small objects, especially bullets
pepper sth with sth [oftenpassive] to include large numbers of sth in sth:
He peppered his speech with jokes.
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