"Big Mac sauce" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Big Mac sauces [plural]
Etymology: From Big Mac + sauce. From being the special sauce used on McDonald's Big Mac meal-sandwich. Originally a popular name, later legitimized as the official name by McDonald's, who previously called it special sauce. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|Big Mac|sauce}} Big Mac + sauce Head templates: {{en-noun|~|head=Big Mac sauce}} Big Mac sauce (countable and uncountable, plural Big Mac sauces)
  1. The sauce used on Big Mac hamburgers. Synonym of special sauce. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): McDonald's Synonyms: big mac sauce (english: generic burger sauce)
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  2. (by extension) Any similar-tasting sauce used on burgers. Synonym of burger sauce. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): McDonald's
    Sense id: en-Big_Mac_sauce-en-noun-UaXwwkua Disambiguation of McDonald's: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 76 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 64
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