salt and pepper

Adjective

Meaning

salt and pepper (not comparable)

Mixed black and white.
His beard, once black, was now salt and pepper.
the salt-and-pepper effect on an untuned television screen

salt-and-pepper (comparative more salt-and-pepper, superlative most salt-and-pepper)

Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.
salt-and-pepper hair
fabric with a salt-and-pepper pattern

Alternative names

salt-and-pepper

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Examples

You could have put salt and pepper on me and fried me out in right field. Roberto Clemente

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. Gaylord Perry

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come. Marc Newson

I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets. Eva Zeisel

You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own. Emeril Lagasse

I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave. Laura Haddock

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