juice

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, India) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuːs/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪʊ̯s/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʉs/
• (US, Canada, Philippines) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒus/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

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juice

Wikipedia

juice (usually uncountable, plural juices)

2. (uncountable) A liquid from a plant, especially fruit.
   • 1837 April, J. M. (London), in "Miscellaneous Intelligence: Art. V. Queries and Answers", The Gardener's Magazine, August edition, page 378.

     You are aware, I presume, that immense quantities of sugar are annually made from the juice of the A`cer sacchárinum,^[sic] in the west of Pennsylvania and New York, with which our forests abound (Professor Kid, in his Bridgwater Treatise, says they are “cultivated”!); and, as the peculiarities attending the flow of this juice have puzzled me to explain them, I have resolved to state them to you.

   • 1940 November, Dwight M. DeLong, “Studies of Methods and Materials for the Control of the Leafhopper Empoasca fabae as a Bean Pest”, in Technical Bulletin, number 740, United States Department of Agriculture, page 26:

     The plant juices of both bean and potato gave strong positive tests, showing that the juices of these plants can readily dissolve copper in some form from bordeaux-mixture residue and absorb it through a permeable membrane.

   Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out.

   Hyponyms: apple juice, orange juice, lemon juice

3. (countable) A beverage made of juice.
   • 1938, C.B. Hutchison, S.B. Freeborn, Toward Better Agriculture: Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, page 44:

     The bottled juice must be heated to a temperature and for a time sufficient to attain a sterilizing temperature at the coolest point, usually the center of the bottle.

   • 2006, Katie Kitamura, Japanese for Travellers: A Journey, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 189.

     My mom placed a glass of juice before her, then looked questioningly towards the son.

   I’d like two orange juices please.

   Hyponyms: apple juice, orange juice, lemon juice

4. (uncountable) Any liquid resembling juice.

   Hyponym: moo juice

   1. (Scotland) A soft drink.
   2. (uncountable, slang) Liquor.
   3. (informal) The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container

      Hyponyms: pickle juice (the brine in a jar of pickles), sauerkraut juice (the brine in a jar of sauerkraut)

   4. (slang) The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.

      Hyponym: dumpster juice (liquid which oozes out of garbage dumpsters)

   5. (physiology) bodily secretion, especially that secreted by the glands of the stomach and intestines.
5. (uncountable, slang) Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.
   1. Vitality; strength.
      • 1884 July, Alfales Young, “Letter from Salt Lake City”, in Wallace's Monthly, volume X, number 6, page 450:

        This chance manner of her laying herself fallow gives her an opportunity of recovering her juices, or strength, to enable her to breed a stronger foal.

      • 2019, Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, William Inboden, editors, The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq, page 161:

        And privately the president says, “Do the Iraqis have the juice to carry this off?”

   2. Political power.
      • 1998, The Hotline, page 16:

        CNBC's Matthews: "The power in the Republican party^[sic] in terms of who's got the juice, who knows how to win elections, has clearly moved tonight ... from Capitol Hill, the Newt Gingrich crowd, to the governors' crowd" ("Hardball," CNBC. 11/3).

   3. Petrol; gasoline.
      • 1973, Stephen Barlay, Double Cross: Encounters with Industrial Spies, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 227.

        Drove across the road to the petrol station and waited for five minutes—without buying juice.

      • 2009, William J. Holstein, Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon, Walker Books, page 137:

        Drivers running short on power could simply stop at a gas station and fill up, obviating the fear of running out of juice on a long and lonely road, always a risk with the EV-1.

      Synonym: dino juice

   4. Electricity.
      • 1915, Berton Braley, "The Power Plant"‎:

        This is the shrine of the God That Works,
        Driving away the mists and murks,
        Turning the lightnings into use.
        This is the shrine of the mighty "Juice,"
        Flowing ever the long wires through,
        And making the dream, the Dream come true!

      • 1917 July, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 180, column 2:

        `Perhaps, later on, but I've got lots to show you - and besides, it's a waste of "juice".'

   5. Battery life.
   6. (bodybuilding) Steroids.
6. (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) Semen.
   • 1981, Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature, page 62, quoting Yvette Clemons, The Skin Flick Rapist.

     The demand that a woman drink semen is repeated throughout pornography. Volume after volume presents such scenes as this which we find in The Skin Flick Rapist: "Maria gagged on his juice. It made him so angry that he reached out with his right hand and pulled at her hair."

   • 2005, Michael Thomas Ford, Tangled Sheets, Kensington Books, page 242:

     I pulled my cock out of North and he fell forward, his face in the cum-soaked laundry. He rolled over on his back and looked up at me. I shook the last drops of juice from my prick.

7. (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
   • 1999, Tristan Taormino, editor, Best Lesbian Erotica 1999, Cleis Press, page 62:

     Lily shuddered and looked at me as I came up from between her legs with her juices dripping all over me.

   • 2006, Donna Lea Simpson, Awaiting the Night, page 247:

     Body singing with pleasure, she found he was right, and her juices flowed as he pulled her back down on his stiffness.

8. (uncountable, slang) The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 74:

     He was a sporting man, a gambler. He had to go into hiding at last, because the juice men were after him. I believe they had even broken his ankles.

9. (uncountable, slang, music) Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 160:

     The Nashville Teens convened in 1962 when Ramon "Ray" Phillips and Arthur Sharp, members of two local rival groups, decided to join their musical juices.

Verb

juice (third-person singular simple present juices, present participle juicing, simple past and past participle juiced)

1. (transitive) To extract the juice from something.
2. (transitive) To energize or stimulate something.
3. (intransitive, slang, bodybuilding) To take a performance-enhancing drug.

   Synonym: juice up

   • 2012, Phil Denapoli, Preying on the Innocent, page 233:

     I followed the home run race between Sosa and McGuire, and any fool could see they were juicing.

4. (transitive, slang, originally US) To have sexual intercourse with.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega (lyrics and music), “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:

     Saw your girlfriend, you don't need advice / Always in your ear like, "He's not nice" / She's just upset cause she got juiced in the bunk bed / And you know, she's not wife

Adjective

juice (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp)

Inflection

Synonyms

• saft

Derived terms

• appelsinjuice
• grapefrugtjuice
• juicer
• tomatjuice
• æblejuice

Synonyms

• saft

Synonyms

• saft

Usage notes

• In a more generic sense, like when used as an ingredient, juice is usually instead called saft.
• Juice always refers to a beverage containing 100% fruit. Fruit beverages with added sugar and/or water are called saft.
• A well-known, largely unsuccessful attempt was made to popularize "jos" as a Swedified spelling in the 1970s. "Jos" is now often used in tongue-in-cheek reference.

Declension

Derived terms

• apelsinjuice
• druvjuice
• fruktjuice
• äppeljuice

See also

• äppelmust
• dricka
• köttsaft
• lingondricka
• must
• saft