Usually means: Mixed flecks of black, white.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word pepper-and-salt:

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  1. pepper-and-salt: Merriam-Webster
  2. pepper-and-salt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pepper-and-salt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pepper-and-salt, pepper-and-salt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pepper-and-salt: Vocabulary.com
  6. pepper-and-salt: Wordnik
  7. pepper-and-salt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pepper-and-salt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pepper-and-salt: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pepper-and-salt: Dictionary.com
  11. pepper-and-salt: Rhymezone
  12. Pepper-and-Salt: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. pepper-and-salt: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pepper-and-salt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pepper-and-salt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. pepper-and-salt: Wiktionary

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  1. pepper-and-salt: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (figurative, uncommon) Of a feeling, intense, spirited, or vigorous.
noun:  Synonym of harbinger-of-spring (“Erigenia bulbosa”)
adjective:  Alternative form of salt-and-pepper [Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.]

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