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sauce
noun- any and all alcohol US, 1940
- But the first thing you have to do is cut down on the sauce and build up your health. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 112, 1953
- too much sauce. — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, p. 346, 17 October 1961: Letter to Philip Whalen.
- Then you make a joy-scene with some fine, hot-ass bitch and a case of sauce to celebrate that you crossed me into the joint. Right? — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 268, 1969
- “Oh. You want to sit down and have a drink?” “I’m off the sauce, Connie.” — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 265, 1987
- I’m off the sauce. I’m not even smoking anymore. — Basic Instinct, 1992
- in drag racing, a fuel mixed from nitromethane and alcohol US
- — Lyle K. Engel, The Complete Book of Fuel and Gas Dragsters, p. 153, 1968
- impudence; impertinence UK, 1835
- “Been praying?” she asked eventually. “None of your sauce,” said Joe. — Angela Huth, Land Girls, p. 59, 1998
- spirit; courage US, 1997
From the song “Baby’s Got Sauce” by G. Love & Special Sauce. - — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 7, Fall 1997
▶ the sauce
the best BAHAMAS- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 176, 1982
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