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mint sauce

mint sauce noun: a sauce, made with mint and vinegar, that is a popular accompaniment to roast lamb.

Noun

mint sauce (usually uncountable, plural mint sauces)

  1. (usually) A sauce, made with mint and vinegar, that is a popular accompaniment to roast lamb.
  2. (UK, dated, slang, usually) Money.
    • 'Sure, I do. Joey comes here with me whenever I'm not busy with a flat and he's got the mint-sauce for the entrance fee.'1974, H. R. F. Keating, The Underside

Forms of mint sauce

pluralmint sauces

Questions about mint sauce

What does mint sauce mean?
Mint sauce means a sauce, made with mint and vinegar, that is a popular accompaniment to roast lamb.
What part of speech is mint sauce?
Mint sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of mint sauce?
The plural of mint sauce is mint sauces.

Words near mint sauce in the dictionary

  1. mint moths
  2. mint par
  3. mint par of exchange
  4. mint pars
  5. mint pars of exchange
  6. mint sauce
  7. mint sauces
  8. mint sling
  9. mint slings
  10. mint stick
  11. mint sticks

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