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US
/ˈɡɹeɪvi/
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[ UK /ɡɹˈeɪvi/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈeɪvi/ ]
NOUN
- a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
- the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
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a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
How To Use gravy In A Sentence
- Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
- And the 21m he banked off the course is certain to rocket as new sponsors clamber on board the gravy train. The Sun
- Just one tablespoon of butter, sour cream or gravy can double the calories in a potato.
- The pieces should be sturdy, worm-free and consider just how will you clean up the mess if you send a slop of beef gravy down that gorgeous burr walnut façade?
- If you are perusing the buffet table, skip the items that are loaded with calories and fat, such as dressings and gravy. Durangoherald.com
- Add sausage meat back to gravy and season with salt and white pepper to taste.
- For what Steyn calls a cheerier take, though, there's this, from some make-pretend academic on the wingnut gravy train: Firedoglake
- The big story this year is not how fast the gravy train keeps rolling, but who is occupying the first-class compartment. Times, Sunday Times
- Last night there was outrage at the gravy train, which is expected to last five years and cost 100million. The Sun
- Your job is to finish off the gravy. Times, Sunday Times
