sauce n.1
1. a venereal disease.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Provoked Wife IV iii: I hope your punks will give you sauce to your mutton. |
2. vaginal fluids.
| Whores Rhetorick 138: Hiding themselves under her Petticoats, to raise their decayed appetites by the warm sauce to be found under those Robes. | |
 | Dutch Riddle 1/2: The Courtier, Country-man, and Cit, / [...] / [L]ove to taste the dainty Bit, / Altho’ the Sauce proves often sower. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Good Sauce from the Gravy Bowl’ 🎵 I like good sauce in the gravy bowl, / Must be sauce about ninety days old! / Good sauce, good sauce from the gravy bowl! |
3. money.
| (trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas I 11: I have a delicate trout; but those who eat it must pay for the sauce [...] After having paid sauce for a supper, which I had so ill digested, I went to the muleteer. |
4. semen.
| Crissie 15: ‘You’d better keep your sauce for the green bit o’ goods [...] in the next room’. |
5. (US) petrol, gasoline.
| Fighting Flying Circus (2009) [ebook] Sauce, petrol or gasoline. Virage. A bank or circle in the air. |
6. (orig. US) alcohol, (rarely) drugs.
| ‘Jitter Bug ‘ 🎵 Now, here’s old Father, a wicked old man, / Drinks more sauce than the other bugs can, / He drinks jitter sauce every morn, / That’s why jitter sauce was born. | |
| ‘Drunk in Sl.’ in AS XVI:1 Jan. 70/2: liquor [...] sauce. | |
| Junkie (1966) 134: The first thing you have to do is cut down on the sauce and build up your health. | |
| Jeeves in the Offing 155: He most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce. | |
| Friends of Eddie Coyle 145: Beating the hell out of the sauce and everything. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Complete Barry McKenzie 11: He looks like Crocodile Dundee’s grandfather after a session on the sauce. | |
| Homeboy 50: Soon after, the sauce killed her. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 196: You want to lay off the sauce, man. | |
| ‘The Fights’ in Knockemstiff 194: ‘You’ll never stay off the sauce’. | |
| Devil All the Time 187: [He] sometimes read real books when he was trying to stay off the sauce. | |
| Missing Ink 50: He gave up the sauce in his early thirties. | |
| (con. 1943) Coorparoo Blues [ebook] [A] line of kegs gushing forth the sauce. | |
| Blood Miracles 56: ‘I’ve had a couple of drinks,’ Ryan mutters. ‘Ah yeah, blame the sauce’. | |
| Razorblade Tears 44: ‘I’ll lay off the sauce’. |
7. (US campus) beer.
| Campus Sl. Mar. 3: sauce – beer, not other alcoholic beverages. |
8. (US gay) semen.
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
9. (UK black/gang) blood.
| (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Sauce - blood. |
In derivatives
(US) drunk.
| in New Yorker 18 Feb. 🌐 Trump resembled an over-sauced guy [...] facing three likely options in the near term: a) take a swing at someone, b) get clocked by someone else, or c) pass out. | |
| ‘OOOUUU’ 🎵 This Henny got me, oh, it got me sauced. |
In compounds
(US) a drunkard, an alcoholic.
| (con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad. | |
| posting at http://forums.footballguys.com 23 Jan. 🌐 I have heard that Russ Grimm is a saucehound. |
In phrases
(orig. US) to drink to excess.
| Pal Joey 63: He almost began hitting the sauce. | |
| Grant’s Tomb 15: ‘[B]efore he began to hit the sauce, this guy was a damn good reporter’. | |
| Mama Black Widow 235: I left Mama and hit the sauce. | |
| All the President’s Men 300: ‘He’s resigned to the likelihood that he’s going to jail. [...] He hits the sauce every once in a while, but nothing serious’ . | |
| in Dusted Mag. at Trikont.com 🌐 Dragging on a charge has never been as troublesome or habit-forming as hitting the sauce. |
(orig. US) drinking heavily and consistently.
| Grant’s Tomb 50: ‘He really went on the sauce, then?’ ‘Yes’. | |
| Dear ‘Herm’ 301: Makes you wonder if they are on the sauce as well as ladeling it out (If you know what I mean). | |
| Brown’s Requiem 11: When I was on the sauce, he felt he had the upper hand. | |
| Wizard of La-La Land (1999) 223: There’s no booze in it, just water. It’s my beard when I’m pretending to be on the sauce. | |
| Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 231: They’re all hammered [...] On the sauce all day. | |
| Guardian 26 Mar. 🌐 One Nation’s James Ashby says he was ‘on the sauce’ when seeking $20m from NRA . |
drunk, tipsy.
| Mama Black Widow 117: Junior was sauced up. | |
| Sl. U. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Davey Darling 202: He got completely sauced as it happens. | |
| Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 20: I am well sauced up now and all my emotions are about to boil over. |