hot sauce
noun
plural hot sauces
: a pungent sauce that is made from hot peppers and is used especially as a condiment
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An unbelievably hot packet of hot sauce, cake pops from a celebrity chef, and Pop Rocks beverages are among the new items coming to fast food chains and stores.
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Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
The dash of hot sauce adds just enough heat to keep things interesting.
—Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
In the video, Mariko baked a few salmon fillets and boiled some rice before assembling the easy dish, which involved mashing the salmon into bits with a fork and mixing it into the rice along with Kewpie mayonnaise (a Japanese brand of the condiment), soy sauce and hot sauce.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
Snag some hot sauces, mustard, oil and vinegar.
—Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
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Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
The dash of hot sauce adds just enough heat to keep things interesting.
—Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
In the video, Mariko baked a few salmon fillets and boiled some rice before assembling the easy dish, which involved mashing the salmon into bits with a fork and mixing it into the rice along with Kewpie mayonnaise (a Japanese brand of the condiment), soy sauce and hot sauce.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
Snag some hot sauces, mustard, oil and vinegar.
—Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for hot sauce
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“Hot sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20sauce. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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