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Mar. 28, 2015

pepper-upper \PEP-er-UHP-er\ noun 1. Informal. something, as a food, beverage, or pill, that provides a quick but temporary period of energy and alertness. 2. Informal. something added to food to relieve blandness. Quotes Good for a little pepper-upper, that's all. Fourteen, you got maybe a little flash of color. -- Ken Goddard, The Alchemist, 1997 Origin Pepper-upper entered English in the 1930s from the expression pep up, an Americanism from the early 1900s.

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