Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - pepper

~1 n 1 a grey or pale yellow powder used to add a slightly hot taste to food  (Pass the salt and pepper, please.)  (- see also black pepper, white pepper) 2 a red powder like this, especially cayenne pepper or paprika 3 a hollow red, green or yellow vegetable that is used in hot or cold dishes  (- see also bell pepper, sweet pepper) ~2 v 1 to scatter things all over or all through something  (be peppered with)  (a report peppered with statistics) 2 to hit something repeatedly with many bullets  (pepper sth with)  (He peppered the side of the barn with buckshot.) 3 to add pepper to food