hot sauce

American  

[hot saws] / ˈhɒt ˌsɔs /

noun

1. any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of chile pepper.

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Etymology

Origin of hot sauce

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Recently, Kelce spent the day with the founders of Hank Sauce, a hot sauce company he’s investing in, at their Jersey Shore restaurant of the same name.

From The Wall Street Journal

López declared of the bulging cholesterol bomb, typically dripping in hot sauce.

From Los Angeles Times

Some of my most successful table spreads have included cloudberry jam from Norway, hot sauce from Belize, Japanese matcha, paprika chips from Spain, Portuguese sardines and dukkah, an Egyptian spice mix.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hog Island’s Pro Shuckers Kit includes everything you need: a wood-handled Olympia oyster knife, a pair of shucking gloves, hot sauce, Hogwash mignonette, and 36 gorgeous oysters.

From Salon

There are fermented hot sauces and a blue fermented pickle juice-lemonade hybrid meant to be downed by the shot.

From The Wall Street Journal