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/d͡ʒuːs/
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/d͡ʒʉws/
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/d͡ʒɪʊ̯s/
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/ˈd͡ʒʉs/
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/d͡ʒus/
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d͡ʒuːs
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d͡ʒus
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Noun
A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
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Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out.
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1837 April, J. M. (London), in "Miscellaneous Intelligence: Art. V. Queries and Answers", The Gardener's Magazine, August edition, page 378. 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 the flow of this juice have puzzled me to explain them, I have resolved to state them to you.
The plant juices of both bean and potato gave strong positive tests, showing that the juices of these plants can readily dissolve copper in some form from bordeaux-mixture residue and absorb it through a permeable membrane.
A beverage made of juice.
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I’d like two orange juices please.
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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.
2006, Katie Kitamura, Japanese for Travellers: A Journey, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 189. My mom placed a glass of juice before her, then looked questioningly towards the son.
Any liquid resembling juice. A soft drink.
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Any liquid resembling juice. Liquor.
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Any liquid resembling juice. The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container
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Any liquid resembling juice. The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.
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Any liquid resembling juice. Bodily secretion, especially that secreted by the glands of the stomach and intestines.
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Any source or enabler of significant positive effects. Vitality; strength.
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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.
And privately the president says, “Do the Iraqis have the juice to carry this off?”
Any source or enabler of significant positive effects. Political power.
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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).
Any source or enabler of significant positive effects. Petrol; gasoline.
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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.
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.
Drivers running short on power could simply stop at a gas station and fill up, obviating the fear of running out of juice on a long and lonely road, always a risk with the EV-1.
Any source or enabler of significant positive effects. Electricity.
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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!
`Perhaps, later on, but I've got lots to show you - and besides, it's a waste of "juice".'
Any source or enabler of significant positive effects. Battery life.
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Any source or enabler of significant positive effects. Steroids, exogenous testosterone or supplements (often illicit) that aid in bodybuilding.
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Any source or enabler of significant positive effects. Exciting gossip.
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I stopped by CeCe's setup […] to see if she would tell me the juice on this thing with her and Marco.
Semen.
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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."
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.
The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
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Lily shuddered and looked at me as I came up from between her legs with her juices dripping all over me.
Body singing with pleasure, she found he was right, and her juices flowed as he pulled her back down on his stiffness.
The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
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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.
The profit coming from the interest on an illegal loan.
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Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
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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
To extract the juice from something.
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To energize or stimulate something.
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Having a beloved couple (Jim and Pam, Cory and Topanga) exchange vows was once a foolproof way to juice TV ratings.
To take a performance-enhancing drug.
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I followed the home run race between Sosa and McGuire, and any fool could see they were juicing.
To have sexual intercourse with.
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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
Noun
the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking
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energetic vitality
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her creative juices were flowing
electric current
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when the wiring was finished they turned on the juice
any of several liquids of the body
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digestive juices