gravies

Plural: gravies

Noun

• Plural form of a sauce made from meat juices.
• a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
• the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
• a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
• plural of gravy

Examples

• His opponent’s high-scoring word, GRAVIES, thickened the plot of their close game.

Synonyms

bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, pan gravy, windfall