1. gravy(n = noun.food) Array - a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats; Array
is a kind of sauce
2. gravy(n = noun.food) pan gravy - the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added; Array
is a kind of juice
3. gravy(n = noun.event) bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall - 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"
is a kind of happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent
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]
gravy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the juices exuding from meat during and after cooking. b a dressing or sauce for food, made from these or from other materials, e.g. stock.
2 sl. unearned or unexpected money.
Idiom:
gravy-boat a boat-shaped vessel for serving gravy. gravy train sl. a source of easy financial benefit.
Etymology:
ME, perh. from a misreading as grav{eacute} of OF gran{eacute}, prob. f. grain spice: see GRAIN
N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.