"sauce up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: sauces up [present, singular, third-person], saucing up [participle, present], sauced up [participle, past], sauced up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} sauce up (third-person singular simple present sauces up, present participle saucing up, simple past and past participle sauced up)
  1. To add sauce to; to serve sauce onto.
    Sense id: en-sauce_up-en-verb-74C-NUZ7
  2. (slang) To get drunk. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-sauce_up-en-verb-5Xog-EjD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 45 28 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 12 64 24
  3. (informal, transitive) To make something more saucy (sexually provocative); to sex up. Tags: informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-sauce_up-en-verb-S0X9NWsU

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sauce up meaning in English (1.6kB)

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