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 25-year-old launched his hot sauce brand, Cloud 23, in the U.K. last week. Angel Saunders, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024 Grated Cheddar cheese, diced raw onion, sour cream, and a selection of your favorite hot sauces make good additions. Lynn Forbes, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024 The jam jars would nestle against bottles of hot sauce; and on our plates, dollops of jam would come precariously close to the squash casserole or green beans. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2024 Just look at the tableau of hot sauces featured on the celebrity interview show Hot Ones, with the hottest exceeding 2 million Scoville heat units. Whizy Kim, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hot sauce 

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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 22 Oct. 2024.

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