English Dictionary

sauce

/sɔːs/

noun

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. / (UK, Australia, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in: / (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.

I love the spicy sauce on my pizza.

意味（1）

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

意味（2）

(UK, Australia, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

意味（3）

(slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.

Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

意味（4）

(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.

意味（5）

(art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

意味（6）

(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce,’ said Sarah.

意味（7）

(US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.

I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .

意味（8）

(obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers […] they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.