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juice

UK/d͡ʒuːs/

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British/d͡ʒʉws/

juice noun: a liquid made from plant, especially fruit. Also the alternative spelling of Jew's.

juice: a liquid made from plant, especially fruit
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Noun (1)

juice (usually uncountable, plural juices)

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually) A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
    • Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out.
    • You are aware, I presume, that immense quantities of sugar are annually made from the juice of the A`cer sacchárinum, 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...1837 April, J. M. (London), in "Miscellaneous Intelligence: Art. V. Queries and Answers", The Gardener's Magazine, August edition, page 378.
  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.1938, C.B. Hutchison, S.B. Freeborn, Toward Better Agriculture: Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, page 44
  3. (Scotland, usually) A soft drink.
  4. (slang, usually) Liquor.
  5. (informal, usually) The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container
  6. (slang, usually) The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.
  7. (usually) Bodily secretion, especially that secreted by the glands of the stomach and intestines.
  8. (slang, usually) Vitality; strength.
    • 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.1884 July, Alfales Young, “Letter from Salt Lake City”, in Wallace's Monthly, volume X, number 6, page 450
    • And privately the president says, “Do the Iraqis have the juice to carry this off?”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
  9. (slang, usually) Political power.
    • 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).1998, The Hotline, page 16
  10. (slang, usually) Petrol; gasoline.
    • 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.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
    • Drove across the road to the petrol station and waited for five minutes—without buying juice.1973, Stephen Barlay, Double Cross: Encounters with Industrial Spies, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 227.
    Synonyms:
    dino juice
  11. (slang, usually) Electricity.
    • 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!1915, Berton Braley, "The Power Plant"
    • `Perhaps, later on, but I've got lots to show you - and besides, it's a waste of "juice".'1917 July, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 180, column 2
  12. (slang, usually) Battery life.
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  1. (slang, usually) Steroids, exogenous testosterone or supplements (often illicit) that aid in bodybuilding.
  2. (slang, usually) Exciting gossip.
    • I stopped by CeCe's setup […] to see if she would tell me the juice on this thing with her and Marco.2007, Joy Evans-Smith, Secrets to Kill For, page 393
  3. (slang, usually, vulgar) Semen.
    • 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."1981, Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature, page 62, quoting Yvette Clemons, The Skin Flick Rapist.
    • 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.2005, Michael Thomas Ford, Tangled Sheets, Kensington Books, page 242
  4. (slang, 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.1999, Tristan Taormino, editor, Best Lesbian Erotica 1999, Cleis Press, page 62
    • Body singing with pleasure, she found he was right, and her juices flowed as he pulled her back down on his stiffness.2006, Donna Lea Simpson, Awaiting the Night, page 247
  5. (slang, 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.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 74
    Synonyms:
    cut, take, vig, vigorish
  6. (slang, usually) The profit coming from the interest on an illegal loan.
  7. (slang, 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.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 160

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.
    • Having a beloved couple (Jim and Pam, Cory and Topanga) exchange vows was once a foolproof way to juice TV ratings.2026 May 27, Judy Berman, “When Did On-Screen Weddings Get So Bleak?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 28 May 2026
  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.2012, Phil Denapoli, Preying on the Innocent, page 233
    Synonyms:
    juice up
  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 wife2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know
    Synonyms:
    Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have

Proper noun capitalized: JUICE

JUICE

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

Noun (2) capitalized: Juice

Juice

  1. (deliberate, derogatory, humorous, misspelling, slang) Deliberate misspelling of Jews.

Also used as

juice is also the alternative spelling of Jew's.

juice meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

juice in Hindi

liquid from a plant
रस ras, जूस jūs
beverage made of juice
रस ras, शर्बत śarbat, जूस jūs

juice in Tamil

beverage made of juice
சாறு cāṟu

juice in Marathi

रस

juice in Urdu

liquid from a plant
رَس ras
beverage made of juice
رَس ras, جُوس jūs
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juice in Bengali
রস ros, জুস jus
juice in Telugu
రసం, జ్యూస్
juice in Malayalam
നീര് nīrŭ
juice in Kannada
ರಸ, ಜ್ಯೂಸ್
juice in Punjabi
ਜੂਸ, ਰਸ
juice in Gujarati
જ્યુસ
juice in Odia
ଜୁସ୍, ରସ
juice in Sanskrit
रस rasa, फलरस phalarasa, पायस pāyasa, नीर nīra
juice in Sinhala
යුෂ yuṣa
juice in Assamese
ৰস rox, ছৰ্পত sorpot
juice in Nepali
जुस, ज्युस
juice in Pashto
جوس jus
juice in Tagalog
katas
juice in Arabic
عَصِير ʕaṣīr
juice in Malay
jus, air
juice in Indonesian
jus, getah, sari buah
juice in Thai
น้ำผลไม้ náam-pǒn-lá-máai, น้ำ náam
juice in Vietnamese
nước ép, nước
juice in Myanmar
ရည် rany, သစ်သီးရည် sacsi:rany

Examples of juice in a sentence

  • Put the berries into a cheesecloth and wring the juice into a bowl.
  • However the mechanical expression of juice led to an improvement of the solutes extraction from mash.
  • Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.

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Synonyms of juice

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Forms of juice

Noun
pluraljuices
Verb
third-person singular presentjuices
present participlejuicing
past participlejuiced
pastjuiced

Past tense of juice: juiced

Plural of juice: juices

Origin of 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.

Dialectal spelling of Jew's, a particle of unclear origin. See Jew's harp for more.

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Words formed from juice

Phrases with juice

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Words that rhyme with juice

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Questions about juice

What does juice mean?
Juice means a liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
What is juice in Hindi?
Juice in Hindi is रस (ras), जूस (jūs), शर्बत (śarbat). See Juice meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is juice?
Juice can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce juice?
Juice is pronounced /d͡ʒuːs/ (UK).
What is the plural of juice?
The plural of juice is juices.

Words near juice in the dictionary

  1. Juhnke
  2. Juhnkes
  3. Juhuri
  4. juhyo
  5. juhyou
  6. juice
  7. juice badge
  8. juice box
  9. juice boxes
  10. juice carton
  11. juice cartons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: juice (page history and authors); JUICE (page history and authors); Juice (page history and authors); juice (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); juice (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); juice (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); juice (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); juice (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); juice (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); juice (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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