sass

noun

1. (uncountable)The quality of being sassy.

   “This girl has a lot of sass.”

2. (US, uncountable)Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.

   “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" […]”

3. (archaic, uncountable)Vegetables used in making sauces.
4. (uncountable)A subgenre of screamo music.

verb

1. (US, informal, intransitive)To talk, to talk back.

   “The duke he begun to abuse him for an old fool, and the king begun to sass back; and the minute they was fairly at it, I lit out, and shook the reefs out of my hind legs, and spun down the river road like a deer—for I see our chance; and I made up my mind that it would be a long day before they ever see me and Jim again.”

   ““But, good land! what did he want to sass back for? You see, it couldn’t do him no good, and it was just nuts for them.””

2. (US, informal, transitive)To speak insolently to.

   “Don’t sass your teachers!”

   ““This isn’t any of your business, Ilse Burnley,” muttered Jennie, sullenly. “Oh, isn’t it? Don’t you sass me, Piggy-eyes.” Ilse walked up to the retreating Jennie and shook a sunburned fist in her face.”

name

1. A surname.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, a style sheet language.