weak sauce

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1. alternativeAlternative form of weaksauce.

   Blazing at a very healthy 30 frames per second with NO clipping, NO slowdown, and NO loss of graphic quality, this one made Eggo run to the nearest restroom after his ‘weak sauce’ stomach gave out.

   1998 June, “Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. [review]”, in Jay Puryear, editor, GameFan: The Last True Enthusiast Magazine, volume 6, number 6, Santa Monica, Calif.: Metropolis Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44

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   Some California students provided us with a taste of slang words that are now catching on, although, thanks to MTV, you have already heard some of them. […] Good events or things are "dope." Bad events are "weak sauce." "Right on" is "that's sweet." "That's awesome" is "that's the bomb."

   [1993 February 12, Jeff Schnaufer, “New Trends Imitate ’70’s Style”, in Andrew McRoberts, editor, The Crusader, volume 34, number 14, Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, columns 5–6

   [T]he news bunny ran up to him, saying, "Officer, did you have trouble catching up with Batman? Was it an exciting chase?" The surfer cop struck a semi-heroic pose for the camera and said, "Weak sauce." Then he quickly walked Batman to the black-and-white, where he was put into the backseat.

   2006, Joseph Wambaugh, Hollywood Station […], New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 237

plural weak sauces

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of weaksauce.

   Had a run-in on the bus with some weak sauces.

   2015, Samantha Marks, “The Birthday”, in A Fatal Family Secret (Morphosis.me Files; 1), [S.l.]: Samantha Marks, →ISBN, page 26

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   […] New England Asters. Not the pale domesticates of the perennial border, the weak sauce of lavender or sky blue, but full-on royal purple that would make a violet shrink.

   2013, Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Planting Sweetgrass”, in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 40