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   gravy

   /ˈɡreɪvi/

   noun

   • 1. a sauce made by mixing the fat and juices exuded by meat during cooking with stock and other ingredients: "sit down and enjoy a roast , Yorkshire pudding, and vegetables, all served with a healthy helping of gravy"
   • ▪ the fat and juices exuding from meat during cooking.
   • 2. something pleasing, especially money or success, that is unearned or unexpected: informal North American "their current position is simply gravy for a team that has high potential and is not fielding its best roster"

   Word Origin Middle English (denoting a spicy sauce): perhaps from a misreading (as gravé) of Old French grané, probably from grain ‘spice’, from Latin granum ‘grain’.

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   What does gravy mean?

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   How do you use gravy in a sentence?

   • Let this stew for an hour; then take out the duck, strain the gravy, and remove all fat, and add plenty of mushrooms. Gravy definition: the fat and juices that drip from cooking meat, often thickened, seasoned, flavored, etc., and used as a sauce for meat, potatoes, rice, etc.. See examples of GRAVY used in a sentence.

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   What is a 'gravy train'?

   • These rolls were perhaps used as a supplementary spoon to sop up sauces and gravies. Arrange them on a dish, and pour round them either a good gravy or hot tomato sauce. People who say that this institution is just a 'gravy train' are wrong.

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   Is tomato sauce gravy?

   • The tomato sauce is ‘gravy’ to many Italian-Americans of a certain class. In eating bread with meat, never dip it into the gravy on your plate, and then bite the end off. Zoms—Miss—take care of your feathers—has the scoundrel spilt the gravy down your back?

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   Gravy is a sauce made with meat juices and flour, or something extra that you welcome having. Learn more about the different meanings and uses of gravy in English, with examples and translations.

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   • Gravy: French Translation

     GRAVY translate: (sauce au) jus. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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     GRAVY translate: salsa para carne, salsa de carne, jugo de...

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   • Gravy: Arabic Translation

     GRAVY translate: صَلْصة اللَّحْم. Learn more in the...

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   Gravy definition: the fat and juices that drip from cooking meat, often thickened, seasoned, flavored, etc., and used as a sauce for meat, potatoes, rice, etc.. See examples of GRAVY used in a sentence.

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   Gravy is a sauce made with meat juices and flour, or something extra that you welcome having. Learn how to pronounce gravy, see examples of its usage and find translations in different languages.

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   Gravy is a sauce made from the juices that come from meat when it cooks. Learn how to use gravy in different contexts, such as slang, idioms and word challenges, with Collins English Dictionary.

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