chili sauce
Americannoun
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chili sauces
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of chili sauce
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
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I ordered a stir fry of crab and broken rice with greens and yam that came topped with a fried soft-shell crab drizzled with shito, a Ghanaian chili sauce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
The Hot Grill, a real local stalwart burger-and-dog “joint” with fervent, voracious fans, specializes in deep-fried hot dogs “all the way,” with their traditional, secret recipe chili sauce, chopped onions and yellow mustard.
From Salon ● May 8, 2024
Bright dots of chili sauce on the plate add both eye and tongue candy — spark — to the assembly.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
What seems like an entire small head of green cabbage is roughly chopped and tossed with a copious amount of minced garlic, dried chili peppers and sweet chili sauce.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
What there was was hot dogs, Coney Island style, as that term was used in Detroit, meaning they were served with chili sauce and onions.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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