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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Served on a stick with a side of apricot jelly hot sauce. Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 9 July 2025 Add the mayonnaise, sour cream, juice, vinegar, and hot sauce; stir to combine. Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 7 July 2025 In addition to his work onscreen, Madsen had a line of hot sauce called American Badass and was also an accomplished poet. Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 4 July 2025 For those looking for heat, Marigold offers a lime mango pickle hot sauce that should do the trick. Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot sauce

Word History

First Known Use

1704, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hot sauce was in 1704

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“Hot sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20sauce. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.

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