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The sandwich is loaded with a juicy looking stack of ham, pepperoni, salami, Swiss cheese, banana peppers, red onions, tomatoes, and lettuce.—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025 The new meat sauce has chili flakes, cherry peppers, red bell pepper, pepperoni, red wine and garlic and herbs.—Cheryl V. Jackson, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2025 Its house pizza — The Wise Guy — goes for $25 and has pepperoni, Italian sausage, meatball, bacon and Canadian bacon.—Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025 The pizza deal line up includes CPK’s original barbecue chicken pizza, pepperoni pizza, five cheese and tomato pizza and its mushroom, pepperoni and sausage pizza.—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pepperoni
Word History
Etymology
Italian peperoni cayenne peppers, plural of peperone, augmentative of pepe pepper, from Latin piper — more at pepper
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