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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gravy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gravy boat
gravy train
▪ Privatization is not always the gravy train that governments promise.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boat
▪ Half the people in the car were wearing sneakers with splashy designs on them and molded soles that looked like gravy boats.
train
▪ Six cents an hour, in Salvador, is considered the gravy train.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the gravy train
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Gravy may be taken with the dinner menus, provided it is made with gravy powder or low-fat granules.
▪ Bring gravy to a full boil before serving.
▪ For supper the standard menu was chipped-beef gravy on bread, or macaroni and cheese.
▪ If he succeeds, it is all gravy.
▪ In the late 30s baked beans were available both in brine and in gravy.
▪ In the southwest beef and gravy, along with the appropriate spices, means chili.
▪ In this one you got Yorkshire pudding first and Uncle Fred ate his gravy with a knife and no one frowned upon it.
▪ Reheat foods to 165 degrees F, or until hot and steaming; bring gravy to a boil.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gravy

Gravy \Gra"vy\, n.; pl. Gravies. [OE. greavie; prob. fr. greaves, graves, the sediment of melted tallow. See Greaves.]

  1. The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

  2. Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gravy

late 14c. (early 14c. in Anglo-French), from Old French grané (with -n- misread for -u- -- the character used for -v- in medial positions in words in medieval manuscripts) "sauce, stew," probably originally "properly grained, seasoned," from Latin granum "grain, seed" (see corn (n.1)). See discussion in OED. Meaning "money easily acquired" first attested 1910; gravy train (1927) was originally railroad slang for a short haul that paid well.

Wiktionary
gravy

n. 1 (context uncountable English) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked. 2 # (context UK Canada English) A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy. 3 # (context Southern US English) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce 4 (context countable English) A type of gravy. 5 (context uncountable Italian-American English) sauce used for pasta. 6 (context uncountable India Singapore English) curry sauce. 7 (context uncountable English) Unearned gain. 8 (context uncountable English) Extra benefit.

WordNet
gravy
  1. n. basically the juices that drip from cooking meats

  2. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce]

Wikipedia
Gravy

Gravy is made often from the juices of meats that run naturally during cooking and often thickened with wheat flour or cornstarch for added texture. In The United States the term can refer to a wider variety of sauces. The gravy may be further colored and flavored with gravy salt (a simple mix of salt and caramel food colouring) or gravy browning (gravy salt dissolved in water) or ready-made cubes and powders can be used as a substitute for natural meat or vegetable extracts. Canned gravies are also available. Gravy is commonly served with roasts, meatloaf, rice, and mashed potatoes.

Gravy (disambiguation)

Gravy is a type of sauce, usually made from the juices that naturally run from meat or vegetables during cooking.

Gravy may also refer to:

  • Tomato sauce or ragù, sometimes called "gravy"
  • Gravy (entertainer), adopted name of dancer Labon Kenneth Blackburn Leeweltine Buckonon Benjamin
  • Gravy (film), a 2015 horror comedy film
  • Lumpy Gravy, a 1968 album by Frank Zappa
  • Wavy Gravy, a peace activist and hippie clown associated with The Grateful Dead
  • Dave Felton, musician
  • Jamal Woolard, rapper and star of the Notorious B.I.G. biopic
Gravy (entertainer)

Gravy, (born Labon Kenneth Blackburn Leeweltine Buckonon Benjamin in 1955) is a former entertainer, famous throughout the cricket world, for 12 years of voluntary entertaining of the crowd through a variety of antics at the Antigua Recreation Ground in St John's, Antigua.

Gravy (film)

Gravy is a 2015 American comedy horror film, directed by James Roday and co-written by Roday and Todd Harthan. It stars Sutton Foster, Lily Cole, Gabriel Luna, Gabourey Sidibe, Lothaire Bluteau, James Roday, Paul Rodriguez, Michael Weston, Molly Ephraim, and Sarah Silverman. The film was released in the United States on October 2, 2015 by Scream Factory.

Usage examples of "gravy".

They used wedges of a flat, unleavened bread to sop up the gravy and smaller bits of savory meat while Riane held them spellbound as she told her fabulous tale.

A mound of sort of fluffy mashed cattail tubers, mushrooms, and dogtooth violet bulbs, smothered in gravy thickened with acorn powder.

The salver, vegetable dishes, servers and gravy boat on the sideboard were all electroplated nickel silver.

The gingersnaps lend a spicy flavor to the meat and create a sort of gravy.

Alex shot her another sex-drenched grin, and her blood heated and thickened to the consistency of Gristmill gravy.

Tongue will Peal, then cut half the Head into small pieces, about the size of an oyster, then stew it in Strong Gravy, with a large Ladle full of Claret, and a handfull of sweet herbs, a little lemon peal, a pieces of Onion and Nutmeg.

But executives knew expensing options meant lower profits, possibly jeopardizing the carefully constructed gravy train.

There her platter was stacked with sliced meat, a dipper of redroots in gravy, a small loaf of bread, and a slice of something that looked like nutbread dipped in honey.

He had brought slices of roast mutton swimming in gravy, redroots mashed with butter, and mushrooms.

Hippolyte Gravier from the plantation downriver from Beau Repos, had also been pressed to extend his visit past the noon hour.

Drain, thicken the gravy with flour cooked in butter, pour over the roes, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

It was a grayish-tan, semitranslucent liquid about the consistency of thin gravy.

It could be felt in the nervous laughter, and the easy voices, talking suddenly of Earth and old friends and the smell of food in a farm kitchen, and old half-forgotten tastes for which men hungered: ham searing in the skillet, a cup of frothing cider from a fermenting crock, iced melon with honey and bits of lemon, onion gravy on homemade bread.

And Yana used the last of her third roll to sop up what little gravy remained on her plate before handing it to whomever would take it.

His steak and caviar diet has been replaced by Gravy Trainand he looks even groovier and healthier.