hot sauce

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   a pungent peppery sauce

   Broadersauce

   NarrowerTabasco

Questions about hot sauce

What does hot sauce mean?

hot sauce means "a pungent peppery sauce".

Is hot sauce a common word?

hot sauce is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.