Pepper | Mean of pepper in English Dictionary

/ˈpɛpɚ/

• Noun
• a food seasoning that is made by grinding the dried berries of an Indian plant along with their hard, black covers
1. Please pass the salt and pepper.
2. freshly ground pepper
• a hollow vegetable that is usually red, green, or yellow and that is eaten raw or cooked
1. The steak was served with peppers and onions.
2. Be careful handling hot peppers.
• Verb
• to add pepper to (food)
1. You need to pepper the stew more.

• to hit (someone) repeatedly with your fists or with objects
1. The boxer peppered his opponent with punches.
2. The goalie was peppered with shots.
3. The reporters peppered her with questions. [=the reporters asked her a lot of questions]
• to put a small amount of (something) on many different parts of (a surface)
1. His face is peppered with freckles. [=he has freckles on many different parts of his face]
• to put something in many places in (a story, speech, etc.)
1. She peppered the report with statistics.