Meaning & use
awesome sauce
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Meanings
interjectioninformalslang
Used to express delight or approval when something is excellent.
Grammar: Stands alone as an exclamation, often followed by a comma or period.
You got tickets to the concert? Awesome sauce!
Awesome sauce, we don't have to work tomorrow!
She fixed the computer in five minutes. Awesome sauce!
noununcountableinformalslang
Something that is very good, impressive, or enjoyable.
Grammar: Used as a mass noun, often in the phrase 'a bottle of awesome sauce' metaphorically.
Patterns
- be awesome sauce
That new song is pure awesome sauce.
The party was awesome sauce from start to finish.
His presentation was awesome sauce; everyone loved it.
Common combinations
- pure awesome sauce
- The movie was pure awesome sauce.
- totally awesome sauce
- That skateboard trick was totally awesome sauce.
- awesome sauce!
- Awesome sauce! I passed the test.
Synonyms and how they differ
Practice
Which sentence uses 'awesome sauce' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Awesome sauce is an exclamation of delight, so it works as a standalone interjection. It is not a verb or an adjective, and it doesn't refer to actual sauce.
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