juice

 
Pronunciation: /dʒuːs/

noun

[mass noun]
  • the liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables: add the juice of a lemon
  • a drink made from fruit or vegetable juice: a carton of orange juice
  • (juices) the liquid that comes from meat or other food when cooked: put with the salmon, reserving the cooking juices
  • (juices) fluid secreted by the body, especially in the stomach to help digest food: the digestive juices
  • (juices) a person’s vitality or creative faculties: it saps the creative juices
  • informal electrical energy: the batteries have run out of juice
  • petrol: he ran out of juice on the last lap
  • North American informal influence or power, especially in a political or business context: Lucchese was involved in the case and he had a certain amount of juice around the city
  • North American informal alcoholic drink.
  • North American informal anabolic steroids: I know there are 82 players on the juice

verb

[with object]
  • 1extract the juice from (fruit or vegetables): juice one orange at a time
  • 2 (juice something up) North American informal liven something up: they juiced it up with some love interest
  • 3 (as adjective juiced) North American informal drunk: on his pub crawl he became suitably juiced

Phrases

get one's creative juices flowing

start thinking in a creative and lively way: the workshops allow staff to get away from their desks and get their creative juices flowing

Derivatives

juiceless

adjective

Origin:

Middle English: via Old French from Latin jus 'broth, vegetable juice'