gravy

Noun

A sauce made from the fat and juices of cooked meat.
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)
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
Sauce used for pasta.
Curry sauce.
Unearned gain; extra benefit.

Verb

To make gravy.

Examples

A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.
That triple-word score was just gravy on top of an already winning Words With Friends game.
The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.
There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment of melted tallow”), or from Old French grave, a claimed misspelling of grané (“stew, spice”), from grain (“spice”).
Sense of "pasta sauce" apparently seems to be from Italian dialect, especially Calabrian, differentiating tomato puree (salsa (“sauce”)) from cooked tomato sauce (sugo).

Synonyms

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

Scrabble Score: 12

gravy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
gravy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gravy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

gravy: valid Words With Friends Word