pepper

1. (n) (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant. 2. (n) (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. 3. (n) A plant of the family Piperaceae. 4. (n) (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. (v) (transitive) To add pepper to. 6. (v) (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things). 7. (v) (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals. 8. (v) (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles. 9. (v) (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash. 10. (n) (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. 11. (v) (cryptography) To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing). 12. (n) (MLE, slang) A shotgun. 13. (n) (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing. 14. (v) (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot (upon) with the dotty. 15. (v) (transitive, slang) To write accents or disambiguating marks in script. 16. (n) A surname originating as an occupation for a seller of pepper.