juice

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Pronunciation
/d͡ʒuːs/
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/d͡ʒuːs/ · /d͡ʒɪʊ̯s/ · /ˈd͡ʒʉs/ · /d͡ʒus/(US)

Definition of juice

25 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually)A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
    “Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually)A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
    “Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out.”
    “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.”
  2. (countable, usually)A beverage made of juice.
    “I’d like two orange juices please.”
    “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.”
  3. (Scotland, uncountable, usually)Any liquid resembling juice.
  4. (slang, uncountable, usually)Any liquid resembling juice.
  5. (informal, uncountable, usually)Any liquid resembling juice.
  6. (slang, uncountable, usually)Any liquid resembling juice.
  7. (uncountable, usually)Any liquid resembling juice.
  8. (slang, uncountable, usually)Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.
    “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.”
    “And privately the president says, “Do the Iraqis have the juice to carry this off?””
  9. (slang, uncountable, usually)Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.
    “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).”
  10. (slang, uncountable, usually)Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.
    “Go now and see that both are filled up with enough spare juice for a double journey—we don't want to have to take in anywhere and leave our number. And make sure that everything's running smooth: there's got to be no tinkering this excursion.”
    “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.”
    “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.”
  11. (slang, uncountable, usually)Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.
    “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!”
    “`Perhaps, later on, but I've got lots to show you - and besides, it's a waste of "juice".'”
  12. (slang, uncountable, usually)Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.
  13. (slang, uncountable, usually)Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.
  14. (slang, uncountable, usually)Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.
    “I stopped by CeCe's setup […] to see if she would tell me the juice on this thing with her and Marco.”
  15. (slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar)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."”
    “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.”
  16. (slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar)The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
    “Lily shuddered and looked at me as I came up from between her legs with her juices dripping all over me.”
    “Body singing with pleasure, she found he was right, and her juices flowed as he pulled her back down on his stiffness.”
  17. (slang, uncountable, usually)The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
    “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.”
  18. (slang, uncountable, usually)Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
    “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.”
  19. (alt-of, deliberate, derogatory, humorous, misspelling, slang)Deliberate misspelling of Jews.

verb

  1. (transitive)To extract the juice from something.
  2. (transitive)To energize or stimulate something.
  3. (intransitive, slang)To take a performance-enhancing drug.
    “I followed the home run race between Sosa and McGuire, and any fool could see they were juicing.”
  4. (slang, transitive)To have sexual intercourse with.
    “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”

adj

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable)Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp)

name

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs Latin iūs Old French jusbor. Middle English jus English juice From Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin jūs (“broth, soup, sauce”),…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs Latin iūs Old French jusbor. Middle English jus English juice From Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin jūs (“broth, soup, sauce”), from Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs, from *yewH- (“to mix (of meal preparation)”). Doublet of jus and ukha. In this sense, mostly displaced native Middle English sew (“juice”), from Old English sēaw (“juice, sap”) (> English sew (“juice, broth, gravy”)). Sense of "soft drink" most likely an ellipsis of fizzy juice, another similarly common term in Scotland.

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