pepperoniless

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A form of pepperoni-less — Without pepperoni.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectivepepperoniless (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of pepperoni-less.

    After a while, I got a little less interested, wandered into the kitchen, nosed up the lids of the pizza boxes, made extra sure they were pepperoniless.

    2015, Spencer Quinn [pseudonym; Peter Abrahams], chapter 13, in Scents and Sensibility (A Chet and Bernie Mystery; 8), New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 124
    2 more examples

    He said the vendors’ pepperoni had not been approved by state or federal agriculture officials. Vendors could sell plain cheese pizzas, the investigaor said. […] The pepperoniless pizzas were expected in the school lunchrooms sometime this week.

    1985 November 19, “School contract ends pizza fight”, in The Coshocton Tribune, volume 76, number 144, Coshocton, Oh., →OCLC, page 10, columns 1–2

    Many vegetarians, however, simply follow their standard cultural fare and “vegetarianize” whatever they’re already used to — substituting vegeburgers for hamburgers, roasting wheat gluten instead of pork chops, ordering pepperoniless pizzas, and scarfing down soy hot dogs.

    1987, Billy Ray Boyd, “Well-defined”, in For the Vegetarian in You, San Francisco, Calif.: Taterhill Press, →ISBN, page 9
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