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Meaning of gravy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  gravy
      n 1: a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients
           to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
      2: the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking
         meats; often a little water is added [syn: {gravy}, {pan
         gravy}]
      3: 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" [syn:
         {boom}, {bonanza}, {gold rush}, {gravy}, {godsend}, {manna
         from heaven}, {windfall}, {bunce}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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