Meaning of sass | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. The quality of being sassy.
   uncountable
3. Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, a style sheet language.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
4. Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.
   US, uncountable
5. Vegetables used in making sauces.
   archaic, uncountable
6. A subgenre of screamo music.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“This girl has a lot of sass.”

“Say—if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head.”

“Looky here—mind how you talk to me; I’m a-standing about all I can stand now—so don’t gimme no sass.”

“Talk-back or sass per Bell Hooks is "a gesture of defiance that heals...liberated voice" […]”

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