pepper-upper
椒江区,椒江,椒盐,胡椒粉
Definitions
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Informal.
- : something, as a food, beverage, or pill, that provides a quick but temporary period of energy and alertness.
- : something added to food to relieve blandness.
- : an experience that increases enthusiasm or zeal, as a pep talk.
Examples
Whisk in the half and half and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Rub the loin with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper.
Kanye refuses to stomach any rejection, no matter how upper crust.
If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings.
White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.
The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.
One whist table only is at work; General Pepper and three old hands of the same kidney are hard at it.