sauce

Plural: sauces

Noun

• flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
• A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
• Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
• Alcohol, booze.
• Vitality; capability or talent.
• Anabolic steroids.
• A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
• Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
• Vegetables.
• Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
• Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.

Verb

Verb Forms: sauced, saucing, sauces

• To season or dress food with a flavorful liquid mixture.
• behave saucily or impudently towards
• dress (food) with a relish
• add zest or flavor to, make more interesting
  • "sauce the roast"
• To add sauce to; to season.
• To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
• To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
• To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
• To send or hand over.

Examples

• He tried to sauce up his Scrabble game with a fancy word, but got challenged.
• It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
• Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

Synonyms

adult beverage, alcohol, bevvy, booze, carouse, drink, grog, juice, libation, liquor, lush, nightcap, potation, potent potable, sauce, shot, sowl, strong-water, tiddly, tincture, tipple

Related Words

hit the sauce, lost in the sauce, on the sauce, sauce parlor, sauce parlour, sauced

Anagrams of sauce