hot sauce
Americannoun
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hot sauces
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hot sauce
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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I added enough hot sauce to drown out the lemon.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Indonesians eat a hot sauce known as sambal made of chilli, garlic, shallots and aromatics with just about every meal.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
The six-year-old company, which Smith describes as a "pandemic experiment that blew up into something profitable", occasionally sees its hot sauce bought by the caseload by visiting tourists.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
More than 130 years since its birth in a Baltimore cellar, McCormick owns the spice aisle and sells core condiments such as hot sauce and mustard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The egg and hot sauce has made it glow like yellow, orange, and red finger paint.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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