A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.
Used in a Sentence
pepperoni
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pepperoni.
Editorial note
The pizza is not bad, but don't bother with pepperoni (it isn't spicy, in a land where tons of things are spicy).
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Definitions2
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Quick take
A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of pepperoni gathered in one view.
Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for pepperoni.
noun
A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.
noun
Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.
Example sentences
The pizza is not bad, but don't bother with pepperoni (it isn't spicy, in a land where tons of things are spicy).
Also a lady in the basement sold giant grease soaked pepperoni roles except when the inspectors came.
That’s about as many calories as a Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizza—except the popcorn has three times the saturated fat.
In that framework, the standard would be for the pizza driver to also provide his own pizza dough, pepperoni, and baking ovens.
Someday we may have omega3 pepperoni pizza by feeding the cows a GMO corn that makes omega3.
In any case, it lacks delicious cheese, sauce, and black olives or pepperoni.
Little Caesars's pepperoni and cheese pizzas are $5 when you pick up.
Slice a few bagels, spread pizza sauce, cover with pepperoni, olive slices, mozzarella cheese, and bake on a cookie sheet for 10 minutes until the cheese is melted.
Had no problem adjusting to pepperoni cheese steaks though!
PayPal is completely convinced that I am laundering money in support of terrorism, however they are cool with my ordering pepperoni with olives.
For my snacks I eat pepperoni, beef sticks, almonds(so many different flavored versions.
There I was playing on a Street Fighter 2 arcade cabinet and Gates is chomping on a slice of pepperoni 5 feet away.
Quote examples
Which confused the hell out of me as a child when I heard that the most popular pizza in the US is the "pepperoni pizza".
This is where those "A Pepperoni Pizza per day prevents Cancer" headlines come from.
Send me a large pepperoni pizza" -> "There are no pizza places in this town".
"Pepperoni" in German generally refers to chili peppers (though recently I've heard it being used to describe salamis, likely due to US influence).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use pepperoni in a sentence?
The pizza is not bad, but don't bother with pepperoni (it isn't spicy, in a land where tons of things are spicy).
What does pepperoni mean?
A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.
What part of speech is pepperoni?
pepperoni is commonly used as noun.