Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A container with small holes in the top for sprinkling ground pepper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
pepper shaker .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
pepper + shaker
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Bozo, however, often overuses commas and makes a page look as though an upended peppershaker spilled all over the text.
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