Topic: WEAPONS
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pepper2 [transitive]
1 [usually passive] if something is peppered with things, it has a lot of those things in it or on it
be peppered with something
a speech peppered with amusing stories
The surface of the moon is peppered with craters.
a speech peppered with amusing stories
The surface of the moon is peppered with craters.2PMW if bullets pepper something, they hit it several times :
Machine gun fire peppered the front of the building.
Machine gun fire peppered the front of the building.3 to ask someone a lot of questions, one after the other :
Reporters peppered him with questions.
pepper somebody with questions
American English
Reporters peppered him with questions.4DF to add pepper to food :
Pepper the steak well.
peppered salami
Pepper the steak well.
peppered salami