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sauce up

sauce up verb: to add sauce to; to serve sauce onto.

Verb

sauce up (third-person singular simple present sauces up, present participle saucing up, simple past and past participle sauced up)

  1. To add sauce to; to serve sauce onto.
  2. (slang) To get drunk.
    • Guess I was sauced up and accidentally sold a few bottles to Julian.
  3. (informal, transitive) To make something more saucy (sexually provocative); to sex up.

Forms of sauce up

third-person singular presentsauces up
present participlesaucing up
past participlesauced up
pastsauced up

Questions about sauce up

What does sauce up mean?
Sauce up means to add sauce to; to serve sauce onto.
What part of speech is sauce up?
Sauce up is a verb.
What is the past tense of sauce up?
The past tense of sauce up is sauced up.

Words near sauce up in the dictionary

  1. sauce boats
  2. sauce crayon
  3. sauce crayons
  4. sauce for the goose
  5. Sauce Robert
  6. sauce up
  7. sauce-alone
  8. sauce-y
  9. sauceboat
  10. sauceboats
  11. saucebox

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