hot pepper
noun
Definition of hot pepper
: any of various small and usually thin-walled capsicum fruits of marked pungency; also : a plant (especially a variant or cultivar of Capsicum annuum and C. frutescens) bearing hot peppers
From the M-W Editors
1945
First Known Use of hot pepper
1945
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