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

Enjoy them as is, or pair them with their Signature Sauce, a creamy pepper sauce with a little bit of a kick, or their Bayou Buffalo Sauce, a cayenne hot sauce. — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2026

Guests will be greeted with tostilocos, another street food delicacy, Tostitos with jicama, cucumber, peanuts, sweet and tangy chamoy, hot sauce and lime. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Part advent calendar, part Thanksgiving leftover solution, the 12 Meals of Leftovers features a variety of different hot sauces that will kick up the heat on anything from roast turkey to mashed potatoes. — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2026

Through fruit-forward hot sauces, vibrant seasonings and simmer sauces, Abreu invites home cooks to revisit familiar flavors or discover something new. — Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 20 Oct. 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