Noun an old-fashioned diner where getting sass from the waitstaff is part of the experience Verb He got drunk and sassed a cop.
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Noun
The Golden Girls with Jetsons-eque visuals for a trippy juxtaposition of familiar sass and speculative futurism. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 July 2022 As a mom, Cassandra Shuford of Montgomery, Alabama, is no stranger to the advanced level of sass lobbed at her every day by her adorable 11-month-old daughter, Caliseah. Sarah Scanlan, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022 But there the popular condiment sits, adding texture and sass to a tradition made lighter and more elastic than usual with olive oil and sour cream in the dough. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022 The signature smugness and sass of Twitter are particularly well suited to dispensing these tidbits of advice. Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2022 If nothing else, though, the stylish and slick thriller brings sass to the secret-agent genre, and there are worse things than watching an evil Chris Evans try to murder Ryan Gosling for two hours. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022 Always elegant, always graceful, but then, a little bit of sass, a little bit of color, vibrancy.Essence, 2 June 2022 Is Leia’s brand of sass a pleasure to write as well? Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022 The waitresses, which, as all over town, included several from eastern Europe, were fleet-footed and had just the right amount of sass. John Mariani, Forbes, 6 June 2022
Verb
With her awe- and fear-inspiring attitude, the comedian-singer-postmodern diva is often recommended for anyone who loves onstage chaos and sass a la Pink Martini, Liza Minnelli or Bette Midler. Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2020 No stranger to reality TV, Delano got her start by sassing Simon Cowell on American Idol season 7 (as Danny Norriega) but was eliminated after making the Top 16. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019 That's right: Now there's a robot who can sass you as well as any teenager. Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2019 Here, Prince Harry was captured sassing photographers while getting out of a car to visit the hospital after his cousin, Princess Beatrice of York, was born in 1988. Lyndsey Matthews, Town & Country, 19 May 2018 Although Archie’s a little shaking at the start of this number (think Zac Efron at the beginning of High School Musical), Betty takes over and uses it as an opportunity to apologize to Veronica after publicly sassing her a few minutes prior. Gianluca Russo, Teen Vogue, 19 Apr. 2018 An entertaining Twitter account, in which Daniels often and humorously sassed back at the name callers, recently went private. Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 19 Apr. 2018 Lewis also sassed and snarled at critics and interviewers who displeased him. Lindsey Bahr, Esquire, 20 Aug. 2017 Things like negging bosses, sassing bartenders, writing off-the-rails emotional emails to men who didn’t care about me—these used to be core parts of my personality. Meaghan O'connell, Longreads, 20 July 2017 See More