Sauce
/sɔːs/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:7 ptsWWF:9 pts5 letters
Definition of Sauce
noun
- A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
"apple sauce; mint sauce"
- Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
"[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce"
- (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
"Maybe you should lay off the sauce."
- Anabolic steroids.
- A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
verb
- To add sauce to; to season.
- To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
- To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
- To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
noun
- The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
"The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling."
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
"The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers."
- A reporter's informant.
- Source code.
- The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
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