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peppered up

peppered up is the simple past and past participle of pepper up.

Meaning of pepper up

Verb

pepper up (third-person singular simple present peppers up, present participle peppering up, simple past and past participle peppered up)

  1. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To increase in energy; to excite (someone).
  2. (informal, transitive) To add pepper (black pepper or chilis) to (food); to spice up (food).

Questions about peppered up

What is peppered up the simple past and past participle of?
Peppered up is the simple past and past participle of pepper up.

Words near peppered up in the dictionary

  1. peppercorny
  2. peppercress
  3. peppered
  4. peppered moth
  5. peppered moths
  6. peppered up
  7. Pepperell
  8. pepperer
  9. pepperers
  10. pepperette
  11. pepperettes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peppered up (page history and authors); pepper up (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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