Meaning

• Noun

  1. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
  2. A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
  3. A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
  4. 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. 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.
  6. (slang) A beating; a thrashing.
  7. (slang) A shotgun.

• Verb