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 chicken marinades in a buttermilk, pickle juice, and hot sauce mixture for hours, giving the chicken a wonderful tangy flavor that everyone will love. —Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 4 Feb. 2026

Crispy garlic potatoes with fiesta ranch dip For a spicy fiesta dip, use hot taco seasoning or add a dash or two of hot sauce. —Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2026

My first job was selling wild game summer sausage and hot sauce to tourists in a VERY niche retail store. —R29 Team, Refinery29, 4 Feb. 2026

Instead of reporting for jury duty, like season 1's Ronald Gladden, the new subject believes that he's been hired as a temp for a hot sauce company and is about to relax with his new coworkers on an annual company retreat. —Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 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
• blas