noun
A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
apple sauce; mint sauce
[Prince Paul.] […] But, believe me, you are wrong to run down cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce. I have never had time enough to think seriously about it, but I feel it is in me, I feel it is in me.
Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
Alcohol, booze.
Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
[…] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didn't come up for days.
Vitality; capability or talent.
It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
Anabolic steroids.
verb
To add sauce to; to season.
To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
Meales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […]
To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
I'll sauce her with bitter words.
"A bit of real starvin' would do them no 'arm, and I would 'ave less sauce." "What, has Willie sauced you?" "Yes, when 'e woke up." […] "Wot did he say?" "Cursed me good and proper, 'e did."
To send or hand over.
noun
Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.