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GRAVY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does gravy mean?

• GRAVY (noun)
The noun GRAVY has 2 senses:

1. basically the juices that drip from cooking meats
2. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

Familiarity information: GRAVY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GRAVY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Basically the juices that drip from cooking meats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("gravy" is a kind of...):

sauce (flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gravy"):

pan gravy (pan juices thickened and seasoned)

Sense 2

gravy ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

bunce; godsend; gold rush; bonanza; gravy; manna from heaven; windfall; boom

Context example:

the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line

Hypernyms ("gravy" is a kind of...):

happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)

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