salt-and-pepper

adjective

salt-and-pep·​per ˈsȯlt-ən(d)-ˈpe-pər 

: having black-and-white or dark and light color intermingled in small flecks

a salt-and-pepper suit

a salt-and-pepper beard

Examples of salt-and-pepper in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Moyer is in his salt-and-pepper years and plays Palmer as a man who is sweetly awkward in his romantic life, but more assured — if still low-key and endlessly polite — in his professional investigations. —Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025

Even then, however, the salt in his signature salt-and-pepper hair was plenty prominent. —Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025

Sporting a bushy salt-and-pepper beard and a world-weary look in his eyes, Pearce finds dimensions both tragic and devious in what could have been merely the stock character of the wily long-term inmate whose isolation has cost him his humanity. —David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025

Witnesses described him as a white male with salt-and-pepper hair, driving a silver or gray Chevy Malibu. —Doc Louallen, ABC News, 6 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for salt-and-pepper

• leper
• lepper
• pepper
• stepper

Kids Definition

salt-and-pepper

adjective

: having dark and light color intermingled in small flecks

a salt-and-pepper beard