juice
Americannoun
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juices
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the natural fluid, fluid content, or liquid part that can be extracted from a plant or one of its parts, especially of a fruit.
orange juice.
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the liquid part or contents of plant or animal substance.
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the natural fluids of an animal body.
gastric juices.
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essence, strength, or vitality.
He's still full of the juice of life.
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any extracted liquid.
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Slang.
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electricity or electric power.
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gasoline, fuel oil, etc., used to run an engine.
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Slang.
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alcoholic liquor.
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drugs, especially anabolic steroids.
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Slang.
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money obtained by extortion.
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money loaned at excessive and usually illegal interest rates.
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the interest rate itself.
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Slang.
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influence in the right or convenient place, especially as exerted for selfish or illegal gain.
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gossip or scandal.
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verb (used with object)
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juices,
present (3rd person singular)
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juiced,
past participle, past
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juicing
present participle
verb (used without object)
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juices,
present (3rd person singular)
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juiced,
past participle, past
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juicing
present participle
verb phrase
idioms
noun
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any liquid that occurs naturally in or is secreted by plant or animal tissue
the juice of an orange
digestive juices
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informal
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fuel for an engine, esp petrol
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electricity
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alcoholic drink
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vigour or vitality
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essence or fundamental nature
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See stew 1
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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juicesimple
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juicessimple
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have juicedperfect
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has juicedperfect
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am juicingprogressive
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are juicingprogressive
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is juicingprogressive
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have been juicingperfect progressive
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has been juicingperfect progressive
Past
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juicedsimple
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had juicedperfect
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was juicingprogressive
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were juicingprogressive
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had been juicingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of juice
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English ju(i)s, from Old French jus, from Latin jūs “broth, soup, sauce, juice”
Explanation
Juice is a drink that's made from fruit, like orange juice or grape juice. Juice also refers to the liquid drippings of cooked meat and other food. Some people like apple juice, while others prefer tomato juice. A much less appetizing — but necessary — type of juice is the fluid in our bodies, like digestive juices that help break down food in your stomach. Informally, you might refer to your creative strength as juice, and also use the word to mean electrical energy: "The batteries in my flashlight are out of juice."
Example Sentences
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The government says the changes could save households up to £21 per year when combined with existing tariff suspensions on products including pasta, fruit juice and tuna.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Big moves in semiconductor shares have created a frenzy around leveraged ETFs that use derivatives to juice up daily returns in the stock market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
But by fall 2025, nothing had happened, so the Herrera family decided to hire someone with a little more juice.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
The plan was to get a little juice and then charge overnight at the oceanfront resort 16 miles away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Danny drank a whole container of mango juice, his fingers sticky with the sweetness.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Fruit, juices, clothes, shoes, peanuts -- Lobe Sarr has turned her hand to various wares over the last 15 years, finally settling on a small street eatery in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Think iced fruity drinks, protein shakes and so-called dirty sodas - a concoction of foam, syrups and juices.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“When you have that level of anxiety over the clouds, it juices the experience,” Elliot Borgman, a 77-year-old retired astronomer from Lansdowne, Penn., told me over breakfast the morning after August’s eclipse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
It fills me up, it makes me so happy, it’s such a good way to like get out my competitive juices, I guess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Using these to cook in, I saved the juices of the fish which are good and were wasted before.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
The “Family Docudrama” series and much that followed read as something like autofiction, drawn from life but juiced up, rephrased, with gestures and incidents isolated and amplified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
While tariff refunds juiced profits, traffic and same-store sales — sales in a store open more than a year — were up during the period.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
To the extent that falling supply leads to higher prices, a shrinking U.S. stock market might have juiced investor returns for decades.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The lithium-ion battery packs are increasingly popular among travelers looking to keep their phones and other electronics juiced up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
And there, on the ground in front of one of the best lead dogs, lay something new—half an orange, cut and juiced.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
Traders piled into riskier corners of the markets, juicing gains in shares of chip makers, smaller companies and a range of economically sensitive businesses such as Norwegian Cruise Line and Olive Garden parent Darden Restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
I started talking to economists, with many reflecting the same view: AI is juicing new business growth, while also allowing more founders to run businesses without employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Big banks have already been acquiescing to Musk’s unusual demands, including paying up front for Grok subscriptions, thus juicing SpaceX’s flagging A.I. revenue.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
Building a new packinghouse was light work compared to building new juicing facilities.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
I don’t know if it was because of the red pop juicing up my brain or because I’m such a good liar, but one of those things got me thinking again real quick.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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