hot sauce

noun

plural hot sauces

: a pungent sauce that is made from hot peppers and is used especially as a condiment

Examples of hot sauce in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The first is pique, a sharp, vinegary hot sauce that throbs with the heat of Thai chiles. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026

And the restaurants also stock seven flavors of salsa in addition to hot sauce for a little extra zing. — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 28 July 2026

Capsaicin Our favorite factor in determining the Scoville rating of hot sauces should be nowhere near your kitty. — Pat Mueller, USA Today, 28 July 2026

Meanwhile, a friend grew a variety of peppers, and Maloney used them to start creating hot sauces, matching peppers with some 85 potential ingredients. — Claire Hall, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1704, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hot sauce

• across
• backcross
• crisscross
• lacrosse
• recross
• tomas
• albatross
• applesauce
• barabbas
• helios
• kshatriyas
• menelaus