Definition of juice in English:

1The liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables.

1. 1.1A drink made from fruit or vegetable juice.
   ‘a carton of orange juice’
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   • ‘Since the surgery, the woman has eaten strawberries and chocolate and drunk coffee and fruit juice, her doctors said.’
   • ‘Choose water, club soda, diet soda, fruit juice, tea and coffee first.’
   • ‘I drink only orange juice, never tea or coffee, which would only increase my level of impatience.’
   • ‘For the thirsty, there are stalls specializing in freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, papaya milk shakes and cold teas.’
   • ‘First of all pub visits would mean drinking cola or orange juice.’
   • ‘Drink plenty of fruit juices, like orange juice and grape juice.’
   • ‘Soft drinks, fruit juices, and mineral waters are widely available.’
   • ‘Stick to bottled water and canned soft drinks, fruit juices, and alcoholic beverages.’
   • ‘Replace fruit juice and soft drinks with ice water.’
   • ‘A good way to break the habit of skipping breakfast is to make and drink fresh fruit or vegetable juices.’
   • ‘She cursed to herself for drinking all that fruit juice.’
   • ‘It is also used for other natural products, including fruit juices, beer, wine and honey.’
   • ‘Watch out for acidic drinks, such as fizzy drinks and fruit juices, as they can cause tooth erosion.’
   • ‘Fruit and vegetable juices are loaded with vitamins and minerals.’
   • ‘Water is the most common beverage, but coconut water and fruit juices also are drunk.’
   • ‘He griped because I had drunk all his orange juice.’
   • ‘So take your mother's advice and drink some orange juice!’
   • ‘Last time James had stomach problems after drinking too much orange juice.’
   • ‘For palates that have grown up with an array of soft drinks and fruit juices, that flavor profile can be a little too intense.’
   • ‘There is a selection of imported fruit juices and soft drinks.’
2. 1.2juicesThe liquid that comes from meat or other food when cooked.
   ‘put with the salmon, reserving the cooking juices’
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   • ‘Cook meat thoroughly; juices should be brown, not pink or red.’
   • ‘Pour on the marinade juices and cook for one hour in a medium oven.’
   • ‘Pass the cooking juices through a food mill into a saucepan and stir in the lemon juice.’
   • ‘They ate food cooked in their juices over fires fuelled from their husks, and used antiseptic squeezed from them on cuts.’
   • ‘Allowing a roast or a whole fish to rest after being cooked so the juices can work themselves through the meat is slow cooking, too.’
   • ‘Strain the cooking juices into a saucepan and boil to reduce by half.’
   • ‘Add four tbsp of the juices to the shredded meat, taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly.’
   • ‘Brush each piece of lamb with Dijon mustard, then roll in the breadcrumbs (this will stop the puff pastry from absorbing the juices when it is cooking).’
   • ‘Pizzas are grilled, and kebabs threaded with bread between the chunks of meat, to soak up their juices as they cook.’
   • ‘Baste with cooking juices throughout for golden crispy skin.’
   • ‘The rotation slowly cooks the meat in its own juices and allows easy access for continuous basting.’
   • ‘Cook all meats completely (the juices should be clear and there should be no pink areas).’
   • ‘Pour the fig dressing into the pan, stirring to combine with the meat juices, then drizzle around the liver and serve.’
   • ‘At this point the vegetables should be cooked but not colored, and there should be cooking juices at the bottom of the pan.’
   • ‘Add the pickled sloes to the cooking juices and warm through.’
   • ‘Leave a thin layer of fat on steaks, chops, and roasts during cooking to seal in juices.’
   • ‘Add the garlic, parsley, thyme, salt and pepper and cook for 5 min or until the juices almost cook away.’
   • ‘Strain in the juices and oil from cooking until you have a smooth paste.’
   • ‘I just serve it with the cooking juices and lemon wedges to squeeze over it.’
   • ‘Piercing the meat with a fork can release juices and fat that can cause flame flare-ups.’
   Synonyms

   liquid, liquor

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3. 1.3juicesFluid secreted by the body, especially in the stomach to help digest food.
   ‘the digestive juices’
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   • ‘Artichoke leaf extract stimulates digestive juices like saliva and bile to help you break down food.’
   • ‘The pancreas makes and secretes digestive juices and enzymes, which help break down fats, carbohydrates and proteins.’
   • ‘It usually starts in the inner lining of the tube that the digestive juices flow through.’
   • ‘The acids and digestive juices in the stomach and intestines would break down and destroy insulin if it was swallowed, so it can't be taken in a pill.’
   • ‘The stomach releases digestive juices and absorbs the resulting soup.’
   • ‘Gall stones may lodge at the intersection, causing obstruction to the flow of pancreatic juices or bile.’
   • ‘This gland secretes digestive juices that help in breaking down foods.’
   • ‘Stomach juices must break them into small pieces before they can be absorbed through the stomach wall and enter the bloodstream, Phillips says.’
   • ‘Does it need stomach juices to disintegrate or is my aspirin no good?’
   • ‘Digestive problems may occur if the cancer blocks the release of pancreatic juices into the bowel.’
   • ‘Hydrolysis also goes on in the strongly acid digestive juices of the stomach.’
   • ‘Large meals put increased demands on digestion, since your body is only able to produce a certain volume of digestive juices.’
   • ‘Further, if the digestive juices are slowed in their transit, constipation occurs.’
   • ‘It stores digestive juices that are made by the liver.’
   • ‘Like peppermint, it helps your body expel gas, but it also stimulates your digestive juices.’
   • ‘Tastes abound, but smells, the scents that get the salivary juices running, are absent.’
   • ‘Chewing food thoroughly makes smaller food particles that dissolve much more easily in the digestive juices in the gut.’
   • ‘Just a bite or two to get the stomach juices churning.’
   • ‘The essential oils found in the leaves even aid digestion by increasing the flow of digestive juices.’
   • ‘People under stress may also bolt their food, creating extra work for their digestive juices.’
   Synonyms

   secretions

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4. 1.4juicesA person's vitality or creative faculties.
   ‘it saps the creative juices’
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   • ‘When we're excited about a project, our creative juices and mental faculties are in full gear.’
   • ‘My creative juices boil at the prospect of national stardom.’
   • ‘Flavors get lighter and fruitier in the spring and that sap-rising energy gets creative juices flowing, and pouring.’
   • ‘With party think tanks, big and small, uncorking their creative juices, seminal works take centre stage and artistic expressions reach for the stars.’
   • ‘But think how it could loosen up your creative juices.’
   • ‘‘Too often, directors starve the creative juices of the actors,’ McDonald explains.’
   • ‘In fact, we'll be using the furniture, posts, doors and other fixtures in ways guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing.’
   • ‘But the creative juices have somewhat dried up - for now - and I think it's time I took a break from writing.’
   • ‘That's what you need to stimulate the creative juices!’
   • ‘There is still time to get the creative juices running and this could be a profitable exercise as the prize money on offer in the competition has increased this year.’
   • ‘The creative juices were flowing in Hacketstown recently as the town's young people looked to their own town for inspiration.’
   • ‘Let your creative juices flow, draw inspiration and give words.’
   • ‘I'm frequently lacking any any creative juices, and feedback is good.’
   • ‘Fantasies start to flow, and so do Sarah's creative juices.’
   • ‘Parenthood, it seems, gets everyone's creative juices flowing.’
   • ‘Stuck for ideas, they went to the pub to top up their creative juices.’
   • ‘To help their creative juices flow, the students were divided into four groups of seven.’
   • ‘Budding film writers are to be offered help to set their creative juices free with a new course in Lancaster.’
   • ‘An architect by profession, Noel let his creative juices loose on the project.’
   • ‘Eating outside usually got her creative juices flowing.’
5. 1.5informal Electrical energy.
   ‘the batteries have run out of juice’
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   • ‘Switches, outlets and fixtures are the gateways through which your electrical juice pours.’
   • ‘There is no need to wait on the engine as there is plenty of electric juice to launch the vehicle.’
   • ‘You need electric juice to mix up all those fruity summer drinks to be enjoyed poolside.’
   • ‘Such electronics suck a lot of juice - power that the beefy hydrogen cells ably supply.’
   • ‘Supplying the juice for all this electrical stuff is the next problem.’
   Synonyms

   energy, electrical power, nuclear power, solar power, steam power, water power

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6. 1.6Petrol.
   ‘he ran out of juice on the last lap’
   Synonyms

   gasoline

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7. 1.7North 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’
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   • ‘You should have enough juice to get the Agency to cooperate with you.’
   • ‘As the P.A.'s clerk, I was some sort of a big shot myself; in con jargon, I had a lot of ‘juice’.’
   • ‘She is not yet ready to use her juice to alter Administration policy.’
   • ‘Large contractors have more financial juice to make a case go away—to hire pricey legal talent, create compliance programs, or pay settlements.’
   • ‘The sergeant's tone is meant to remind me that foreign journalists have no juice whatsoever in a place like this.’
   • ‘If he has been less than popular on Capitol Hill, he has juice where it counts.’
   • ‘Being a congressman just gives him a little more juice with the ward-heelers, union guys and pinstripe guys back home.’
   • ‘He was conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command.’
   • ‘The companies convinced us that they had some juice on Capitol Hill, that they could sell this settlement.’
8. 1.8North American informal Alcoholic drink.
   Synonyms

   liquor, intoxicating liquor, alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, spirits, intoxicants

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9. 1.9North American informal Anabolic steroids.
   ‘I know there are 82 players on the juice’
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   • ‘Experts say a mature athlete can add 30 pounds of lean muscle mass by getting on the juice.’
   • ‘He said that maybe half of all major league players were on the juice.’
   • ‘The Cuban-born player then had the audacity to claim in a tell-all book that most professional baseballs players are on the juice.’
   • ‘So many guys who jump on the juice early end up looking like helium balloons before they deflate to normal size.’
   • ‘Those wrestlers were either too fat or so pumped up on the juice they would blow up after 2 minutes.’
   • ‘Virtually everyone in the sport suspected that he was on the juice.’
   • ‘These guys are easy to spot when they are on the juice because if you get a good look at their eyes at the start line their pupils are as big as dinner plates!’
   • ‘I still don't believe the juice use is as widespread as he would like us to think.’
   • ‘Want evidence that the steroid crackdown is working and the players aren't using using juice as much?’
   • ‘The third argument, of course, is that barring steroids is all about fairness; that it's iniquitous when some players are on the juice and others aren't.’

1Extract the juice from (fruit or vegetables)

2juice something upNorth American informal Liven something up.

3as adjective juicedNorth American informal Drunk.