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Noun: juice  joos
  1. The liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking
     
  2. Energetic vitality
    "her creative juices were flowing"
     
  3. [informal] Electric current
    "when the wiring was finished they turned on the juice"
     
  4. Any of several liquids of the body
    "digestive juices";
    - succus
     
  5. [informal] A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
    - gasoline [N. Amer], gasolene [N. Amer], gas [N. Amer], petrol [Brit]
     
  6. [N. Amer, informal] A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
    "juice ruined him";
    - alcohol, alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant, booze [informal]
Verb: juice  joos
  1. Extract juice from (e.g. by squeezing)

Derived forms: juices, juicing, juiced

Type of: beverage, bodily fluid, body fluid, current, drink, drinkable, drug of abuse, electric current, energy, food product, foodstuff, fuel, humor [US], humour [Brit, Cdn], hydrocarbon, liquid body substance, potable, street drug, vim, vitality

Part of: gasohol

Encyclopedia: Juice