sauce up

verb

To add sauce to; to serve sauce onto.

“Guess I was sauced up and accidentally sold a few bottles to Julian.”

Meanings

verbsauce up (third-person singular simple present sauces up, present participle saucing up, simple past and past participle sauced up)

present singular third person sauces up · participle present saucing up · participle past sauced up · past sauced up

  1. To add sauce to; to serve sauce onto.
  2. slangTo get drunk.

    Guess I was sauced up and accidentally sold a few bottles to Julian.

  3. informaltransitiveTo make something more saucy (sexually provocative); to sex up.
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Chicago

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