pepper shaker

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   a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper

   Synonymspepper boxpepper pot

   Broadershaker

Questions about pepper shaker

What does pepper shaker mean?

pepper shaker means "a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper".

What is another word for pepper shaker?

Close synonyms include pepper box, pepper pot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pepper shaker a common word?

pepper shaker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.