Big Mac sauce

noun

The sauce used on Big Mac hamburgers. Synonym of special sauce.

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Meanings

nounBig Mac sauce (countable and uncountable, plural Big Mac sauces)

plural Big Mac sauces · alternative big mac sauce

  1. countableuncountableThe sauce used on Big Mac hamburgers. Synonym of special sauce.
  2. broadlycountableuncountableAny similar-tasting sauce used on burgers. Synonym of burger sauce.

Origin

From Big Mac + sauce. From being the special sauce used on McDonald's Big Mac meal-sandwich. Originally a popular name, later legitimized as the official name by McDonald's, who previously called it special sauce.

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APA

Big Mac sauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Big%20Mac%20sauce

MLA

“Big Mac sauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Big%20Mac%20sauce. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Big Mac sauce,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Big%20Mac%20sauce.

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