pepperoni

noun

pep·​per·​o·​ni ˌpe-pə-ˈrō-nē 

: a highly seasoned beef and pork sausage

Examples of pepperoni in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Blaze is currently offering a Sweet Heat Pizza with double pepperoni, spicy red sauce and Mike’s Hot Honey. —Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026

The hot dogs, sausage, ham, bacon, pepperoni, bologna and Lunchables in that cold unit also weren’t cool enough and got smothered with Stop Sales. —David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026

The Italian cold cut sandwich is piled high with salami, pepperoni and capicola and filled with lettuce, red onions, Italian herbs and olive oil. —Bahar Anooshahr, AZCentral.com, 6 Mar. 2026

Acquario Pizza’s introductory menu offers a choice of 10 pizzas with toppings such as soppressata, prosciutto cotto, Calabrian chili peppers and cup-and-char pepperoni. —Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2026

Word History

Etymology

Italian peperoni cayenne peppers, plural of peperone, augmentative of pepe pepper, from Latin piper — more at pepper

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for pepperoni

• abalone
• acrimony
• alimony
• antimony
• ceremony
• chalcedony
• cicerone
• cosmogony
• eurozone
• lithopone
• macaroni
• matrimony

Kids Definition

pepperoni

noun

pep·​per·​o·​ni ˌpep-ə-ˈrō-nē 

: a highly seasoned beef and pork sausage