gravy

[gra·vy]

A sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats

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The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

Noun
a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line"

Noun
basically the juices that drip from cooking meats


n.
The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

n.
Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.


Gravy

Gra"vy , n; pl. Gravies . [OE. greavie; prob. fr. greaves, graves, the sediment of melted tallow. See Greaves.] 1. The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up. 2. Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

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Usage Examples

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

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