gravy
IPA: grˈeɪvi
noun
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
- (uncountable, chiefly Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.
- (uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.
- (uncountable, informal) Unearned gain.
- (uncountable, informal) Extra benefit.
verb
- To make gravy.
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Examples of "gravy" in Sentences
- The rest is just gravy, consistent and reliable gravy.
- If they are in England, gristle and gravy in soggy pastry.
- Tomato gravy is prepared in a method similar to white gravy.
- The company evolved to start making gravy and gravy products.
- The gravy supposedly makes the food more palatable for the dog.
- It's all about the pie, the mash volcano and the lake of gravy within.
- Thumbuli is a type of spicy gravy eaten in the Indian state of Karnataka.
- Now the gravy from the oatmeal from breakfast is in the gravy for the beans.
- Two men who killed a drug dealer after being sold gravy granules instead of heroin have both been jailed for 10 years.
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