Synonyms for gravy
ˈgreɪ vigravy

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1. gravynoun

   a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats

   Synonyms:
   pan gravy, bonanza, boom, windfall, gold rush, godsend, manna from heaven, bunce

2. gravy, pan gravynoun

   the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added

   Synonyms:
   pan gravy, bonanza, boom, windfall, gold rush, godsend, manna from heaven, bunce

3. boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, buncenoun

   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 like an assembly line"

   Synonyms:
   miraculous food, thunder, bonanza, roar, microphone boom, boom, windfall, pan gravy, gold rush, godsend, manna from heaven, manna, roaring, bunce

Matched Categories

1. • Happening
   • Juice
   • Sauce

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "gravy":

   sauce, juice, jus, spice, salsa, dip, dressing

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1. Orson Bean:

   I like white trash cooking. Cheeseburgers. The greasier the better. Mashed potatoes served in a scoop, a little dent in the top for the gravy. Drake's Devil Dogs for dessert. Pure pleasure; no known nutrient.

2. James McGovern:

   This isn't a case with surprises in it. It's not even a surprise who your central cooperator is. [ It ] will be painfully boring to watch, gates is gravy at this point.

3. Mary McCarthy:

   The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.

4. Sandra Bullock:

   I was like, 'What?!' But my diet was terrible, milk shakes and French fries with gravy. It was a good thing to start paying attention.

5. Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford:

   Toronto's government has grown bloated and wasteful, it's time to stop the gravy train that provides luxuries and perks to politicians and rich contracts to their friends.