Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A highly spiced pork and beef sausage.
- noun A slice of this type of sausage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a hard sausage of beef and pork, highly seasoned.
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- noun A spicy Italian-American
sausage . - noun
Pizza with pepperoni on it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Worked out great, because pepperoni is one of my favorite toppings.
One Big Summer Showdown - The Battle for Your Appetite « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Oh, and pepperoni is good, but I am partial to mushroom, green pepper and sausage as well.
The Pain of Being Pure At Heart « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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After this non-stop day where he seemed particularly hell bent on making a mess of my house, the figures have been joined by a small red Hot Wheels Corvette race car parked next to one of the sheep, a half-drunk bottle of blue Gatorade, standing quite close to Joseph and a stray piece of pepperoni from the pizza we ordered tonight within spitting distance of the baby Jesus.
December 2002 Halley Suitt 2002
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After this non-stop day where he seemed particularly hell bent on making a mess of my house, the figures have been joined by a small red Hot Wheels Corvette race car parked next to one of the sheep, a half-drunk bottle of blue Gatorade, standing quite close to Joseph and a stray piece of pepperoni from the pizza we ordered tonight within spitting distance of the baby Jesus.
December 2002 Halley Suitt 2002
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The pepperoni was the same, crust overcooked and not enough cheese.
Archive 2008-12-01 Unitas We Stand 2008
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The pepperoni was the same, crust overcooked and not enough cheese.
Joe's Pizza-Santa Monica Unitas We Stand 2008
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The pepperoni are the bright red bits. horsemuth: "Fuck Pepe's"
MetaFilter Projects 2009
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The pepperoni are the bright red bits. horsemuth: "Fuck Pepe's"
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A traditional pepperoni, which is America's favorite, and the meat trio, with pepperoni, Italian sausage, and bacon!, which should be America's favorite, and someday probably will.
The Aristocrats 2008
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A traditional pepperoni, which is America's favorite, and the meat trio, with pepperoni, Italian sausage, and bacon!, which should be America's favorite, and someday probably will.
The Aristocrats 2008
Prolagus commented on the word pepperoni
Peperoni is the plural of peperone, "pepper".
No mozzarella on my pizza, please, I'm vegan. Just put a lot of pepperoni.
April 2, 2009