Gravy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gravy
       n 1: 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "gravy":
     Colbert, Smitane, Soubise, Trinkgeld, allemande, bonus,
     bonus system, bounty, bourguignonne, bribe, brown sauce,
     buried treasure, consideration, cream sauce, discovery, donative,
     double time, egg sauce, espagnole, fee, find, finding, foundling,
     fringe benefit, gratuity, grease, honorarium, incentive pay,
     inducement, lagniappe, largess, liberality, marinara, mole,
     overtime pay, palm oil, paprika sauce, pepper sauce, perks,
     perquisite, perquisites, poulette, pourboire, premium, roux, salve,
     shallot sauce, solatium, something extra, sportula, sweetener, tip,
     treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, waifs, waifs and strays,
     windfall, windfall money, windfall profit