hot sauce
noun
plural hot sauces
: a pungent sauce that is made from hot peppers and is used especially as a condiment
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They're cast as hard-rock goofballs who take a radio station hostage with water pistols filled with hot sauce to get their demo tape played.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 July 2025
Add hot sauce or crushed chili flakes to give it an extra kick.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Just look at snippets of Bad Rudi’s conversation with NBC News, in which the character advocated for stealing a yacht, overthrowing the pope and spiking a town’s water supply with hot sauce and glitter.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 16 July 2025
The Pork-a-palooza pie, which Palmieri bills as a New York-style pizza, comes with spicy pepperoni and sausage, which is then drizzled with hot sauce.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 14 July 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 July 2025
Add hot sauce or crushed chili flakes to give it an extra kick.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Just look at snippets of Bad Rudi’s conversation with NBC News, in which the character advocated for stealing a yacht, overthrowing the pope and spiking a town’s water supply with hot sauce and glitter.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 16 July 2025
The Pork-a-palooza pie, which Palmieri bills as a New York-style pizza, comes with spicy pepperoni and sausage, which is then drizzled with hot sauce.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 14 July 2025
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“Hot sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20sauce. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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