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special sauces

special sauces is the plural of special sauce.

Meaning of special sauce

Noun

special sauce (usually uncountable, plural special sauces)

  1. (usually) A basic ingredient in McDonald's Big Mac hamburgers, a sort of Thousand Island dressing (now called Big Mac sauce by the company).
    • two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun1975, McDonald's Corporation, Big Mac advertising jingle
  2. (usually) Burger sauce.
  3. (figuratively, usually) Synonym of secret sauce.
    Synonyms:
    secret sauce

Questions about special sauces

What is special sauces the plural of?
Special sauces is the plural of special sauce.

Words near special sauces in the dictionary

  1. special revelation
  2. special rights
  3. special saloon
  4. special saloons
  5. special sauce
  6. special sauces
  7. special school
  8. special schools
  9. special service request
  10. special service requests
  11. special service requirement

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