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sauces

sauces is the plural of sauce.

sauces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sauce.

Meaning of sauce

Noun

sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)

  1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
    • apple sauce; mint sauce
  2. (Australia, India, New Zealand, UK) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
    • [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
  3. (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
    • Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
  4. (slang, usually “the”) Vitality; capability or talent.
    • It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
    Synonyms:
    juice
  5. Anabolic steroids.
  6. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

See all 14 meanings of sauce

Phrases with sauces

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Questions about sauces

What is sauces the plural of?
Sauces is the plural of sauce.

Words near sauces in the dictionary

  1. saucerman
  2. saucermen
  3. saucers
  4. saucersful
  5. saucery
  6. sauces
  7. sauces up
  8. Saucesian
  9. saucewood
  10. saucey
  11. Sauchie

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