hot pepper

noun

1. any of variously shaped pungent peppers of the genus Capsicum, containing large amounts of capsaicin and usually having thin walls.

2. a plant bearing such a pepper.

hot pepper

noun

1. any of several varieties of the pepper Capsicum frutescens, esp chilli pepper

2. the pungent usually small fruit of any of these plants

Word History and Origins

Origin of hot pepper¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

On the runway, tomatoes joined eggplants, zucchinis, hot peppers and Farfalle pasta as big, bold prints in Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear Collection.

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Its annual Pepperzania begins in April at the store, with more than 150 varieties of peppers, and in May it offers the hottest of the hot peppers during its Ultimate Pepper Plant Sale.

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The chip, dusted with two very hot peppers, the Carolina Reaper and the Naga Viper, had a label on the box that read, “One Chip Challenge” and carried a warning — “Inside: One Extremely Hot Chip.”

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The two story lines don’t cross paths, as they often do in Hong’s films; they are united only by the deployment of a culinary hack: mixing hot pepper paste into ramyun.

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They include strawberries; spinach; kale, collard and mustard greens; grapes; peaches; pears; nectarines; apples; bell and hot peppers; cherries; blueberries and green beans.

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Related Words

• chili pepper www.thesaurus.com
• jalapeno 
• red pepper