It's American English. For Americans, the word we just stole means whatever the fuck we want.
German loves to do that, too. A cell phone is a "Handy", a projector is a "Beamer", etc.
And then there's Japanese, which takes English words and abbreviates them differently. So "personal computer" becomes "persocom" instead of "PC", "remote control" becomes "remocon" instead of "R/C", "television" becomes "televi" instead of "TV". From that, you might think Japanese people don't like acronyms... until you see that they call a secretary an "OL", which stands for "office lady".
Peperone is actually a bell pepper in Italian, so no meat, but not spicy either. Peperoncino is the spicy one.
Bell peppers and some other non-spicy peppers are called "Paprika" in German (whereas apparently in English "paprika" refers to a spice made from chili peppers).
Amazing how these words tend to evolve to take on entirely contradictory meanings in different languages.