sauce
/sɔs/
noun
- A thick liquid served with food to add flavor or moisture.
- The chef prepared a creamy mushroom sauce for the steak.
- She poured tomato sauce over the pasta.
- I like to dip my fries in ketchup, which is a type of sauce.
- Informal talk or behavior that is rude or disrespectful.
- Don't give me any sauce, young man.
- The player got in trouble for his sauce toward the referee.
- Her sauce earned her a detention after class.
verb
- To add sauce to food.
- She carefully sauced each plate with a drizzle of balsamic reduction.
- The recipe says to sauce the dish just before serving.
- He sauced the chicken with a spicy barbecue glaze.
- To speak rudely or disrespectfully to someone.
- He got a warning for saucing the security guard.
- The student sauced the teacher and was sent to the principal.
- Stop saucing your mother and apologize.