noun
sass
sas
noun
1
Bold or disrespectful talk; cheek.
"The teacher had no patience for the kid's sass."
"She answered back with a bit of sass."
verb
1
To talk back to someone in a bold or disrespectful way.
"Don't sass your grandmother like that."
How to Use Sass
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishCheeky, disrespectful talk, or to talk back like that.
Common pairings
give someone sass
sass back
a bit of sass
Word Forms
sassed past tense, sasses singular
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Etymology
A dialect variant of "sauce" — "sauce" has long been used to mean cheeky backtalk, and "sass" grew out of the same slang usage.