EGAVE

gravy

About 0.87 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked. A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
    A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.
  2. noun A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
    A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.
  3. noun A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
    There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.
  4. noun Sauce used for pasta.
  5. noun Curry sauce.
  6. noun Unearned gain; extra benefit.
    The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.
  7. verb To make gravy.

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Word family

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