Sauce

/sɔːs/ · noun

Meaning

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food..

Definitions by Sense

1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
3. (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
4. (slang, usually “the”) Vitality; capability or talent.
5. (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
6. (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
7. (dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
8. (US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.

Example Sentences

apple sauce; mint sauce

[Prince Paul.] […] But, believe me, you are wrong to run down cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce. I have never had time enough to think seriously about it, but I feel it is in me, I feel it is in me.

You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

[…] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didn't come up for days.

I've been pretty much off the sauce during the last week, trying to get Pepper to like me again. (Horace won't drink with me any more.)

It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.

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Word Forms

• sauces
• sawce
• saucing
• sauced

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