red-eye gravy

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noun red-eye gravy a gravy made from the pan juices of fried country ham, thickened with flour and sometimes containing coffee for color and flavor. 1
noun red-eye gravy gravy made by adding water and, usually, a little black coffee to the juices left in the pan in which ham has been fried 0

before 1945

One of the 6% newest English words

First recorded in 1945-50

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