What does "juice" mean?
A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
Juice
/d͡ʒuːs/ adj, name, noun, verb, slang
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
- Grammar: juice is listed as adj, name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: absorption current, ac, active current, alcohol.
- Useful contrasts: calm, dampen, deenergize.
- Usage evidence: "Yes, orange juice please," says Mike.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A liquid made from plant, especially fruit. countable, uncountable, usually
"Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out."
- 2 deliberate misspelling of Jews. alt-of, deliberate, derogatory, humorous, misspelling, slang
- 3 any of several liquids of the body wordnet
- 4 A beverage made of juice. countable, usually
"I’d like two orange juices please."
- 5 the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking wordnet
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- 6 Any liquid resembling juice.; A soft drink. Scotland, uncountable, usually
- 7 electric current wordnet
- 8 Any liquid resembling juice.; Liquor. slang, uncountable, usually
- 9 energetic vitality wordnet
- 10 Any liquid resembling juice.; The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container informal, uncountable, usually
- 11 Any liquid resembling juice.; The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance. slang, uncountable, usually
- 12 Any liquid resembling juice.; bodily secretion, especially that secreted by the glands of the stomach and intestines. uncountable, usually
- 13 Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.; Vitality; strength. slang, uncountable, usually
"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."
- 14 Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.; Political power. slang, uncountable, usually
"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)."
- 15 Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.; Petrol; gasoline. slang, uncountable, usually
"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."
- 16 Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.; Electricity. slang, uncountable, usually
"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!"
- 17 Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.; Battery life. slang, uncountable, usually
- 18 Any source or enabler of significant positive effects.; Steroids. slang, uncountable, usually
- 19 Semen. slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar
"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.""
- 20 The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused. slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar
"Lily shuddered and looked at me as I came up from between her legs with her juices dripping all over me."
- 21 The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services. slang, uncountable, usually
"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."
- 22 Musical agreement between instrumentalists. slang, uncountable, usually
"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
- 1 To extract the juice from something. transitive
- 2 To energize or stimulate something. transitive
- 3 To take a performance-enhancing drug. intransitive, slang
"I followed the home run race between Sosa and McGuire, and any fool could see they were juicing."
- 4 To have sexual intercourse with. slang, transitive
"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
- 1 Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp) alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Proper Noun
- 1 Acronym of Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Synonyms
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Example
""Yes, orange juice please," says Mike."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "juice"?
Common synonyms include: absorption current, ac, active current, alcohol, alternating current, aqua vitae.
How do you use "juice" in a sentence?
"Yes, orange juice please," says Mike.
How do you pronounce "juice"?
Pronounced /d͡ʒuːs/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Dialectal spelling of Jew's, a particle of unclear origin. See Jew's harp for more.