▸ noun: A plant of the family Piperaceae. ▸ noun: (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant. ▸ noun: (UK, US, Ireland and Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties. ▸ noun: (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 ▸ noun: (cryptography) 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. ▸ noun: (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing. ▸ noun: (MLE, slang) A shotgun. ▸ verb: (transitive) To add pepper to. ▸ verb: (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles. ▸ verb: (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things). ▸ verb: (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals. ▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash. ▸ verb: (cryptography) To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing). ▸ verb: (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot (upon) with the dotty. ▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To write accents or disambiguating marks in script. ▸ noun: A surname originating as an occupation for a seller of pepper.
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