duck sauce

noun

: a thick sauce in Chinese cuisine that contains fruits (such as plums or apricots), vinegar, sweeteners, and seasonings

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

The alleged attacks began in November after Hirsch asked for extra duck sauce with his order — a request restaurant staff honored at the time, according to the charges. —Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 14 June 2022

Mayor Adams has no beef with the NYPD’s month-long wait to make an arrest in the cold-blooded slaying of a hard-working Chinese food delivery man that stemmed from a dispute about duck sauce. —Fox News, 5 June 2022

Think of its final viscosity as about like duck sauce or Thai sweet chili sauce. —NBC News, 5 Sep. 2019

Where the seething racial strife between poor folks erupted into arguments about miscounted change, missing duck sauce packets, or murmured epithets. —Shakirah Simley, Longreads, 5 Oct. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1978, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

duck sauce

noun

: a thick sweet sauce made mostly of fruits (as plums or apricots), sweeteners, and vinegar and used especially with Chinese food