buffalo sauce

noun

variants or Buffalo sauce

: a tangy spicy sauce that typically contains hot sauce and butter often with other ingredients (such as vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and garlic) and that is used especially as a dressing for buffalo wings

Transfer the hot cooked wings to the large bowl and toss with the buffalo sauce.

—Katie Workman

Conventional Buffalo sauce is comprised of some combination of butter and hot sauce.

—America's Test Kitchen

… pizza with buffalo sauce, chopped chicken, and bleu cheese.

—Baynard Woods

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above