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pepper and salt

pepper and salt is the alternative form of pepper-and-salt.

pepper and salt is the alternative form of salt-and-pepper.

Meaning of pepper-and-salt

Adjective

pepper-and-salt (comparative more pepper-and-salt, superlative most pepper-and-salt)

  1. (figuratively, uncommon) Of a feeling, intense, spirited, or vigorous.

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Meaning of salt-and-pepper

Adjective

salt-and-pepper (comparative more salt-and-pepper, superlative most salt-and-pepper)

  1. Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.
    • salt-and-pepper hair

Forms of pepper and salt

comparativemore pepper and salt
superlativemost pepper and salt

Questions about pepper and salt

What is pepper and salt the alternative form of?
Pepper and salt is the alternative form of pepper-and-salt.

Words near pepper and salt in the dictionary

  1. Peppard
  2. Peppards
  3. pepped
  4. pepped up
  5. pepper
  6. pepper and salt
  7. pepper ball
  8. pepper balls
  9. pepper cake
  10. pepper cakes
  11. Pepper Coast

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pepper and salt (page history and authors); pepper-and-salt (page history and authors); salt-and-pepper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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