HOT SAUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hot sauce mean? 

• HOT SAUCE (noun)
  The noun HOT SAUCE has 1 sense:

1. a pungent peppery sauce

  Familiarity information: HOT SAUCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOT SAUCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pungent peppery sauce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hot sauce" is a kind of...):

sauce (flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hot sauce"):

Tabasco; Tabasco sauce (very spicy sauce (trade name Tabasco) made from fully-aged red peppers)

 Context examples 

"Specifically, we looked at the degree to which rejectees imposed an unpleasant taste test of hot sauce on their rejectors."

(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It showed that those offered an apology when rejected from a set of group tasks, which included a taste test of hot sauce, exacted revenge by allocating more sauce to the person who had rejected them.

(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)