pepper

1. (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.uncountable

2. (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.Synonyms: capsicumCanadaIrelandUKUScountableuncountable

3. (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 againExamples: "Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games"."countableuncountable

4. (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.countableuncountable

5. (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing.Examples: "He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style."; "[T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished."countableslanguncountable

6. (MLE, slang) A shotgun.Examples: "Chew beef like breakfast (Yum) Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two) Be feeding my area, peppers"; "Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppers"Multicultural-London-Englishcountableslanguncountable