1. (

• gravy ,

) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats ;

2. (

• gravy ,
• pan_gravy

) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added ;

3. (

• boom ,
• bonanza ,
• gold_rush ,
• gravy ,
• godsend ,
• manna_from_heaven ,
• windfall ,
• bunce

) 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" ;