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juice noun- alcohol US, 1932
- At the Bucket of Blood, a cafe on Madison street, we sold the juice for close to $200. — Milton Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 21, 1946
- I took out the bottle. “It’s just juice, I said.” We all got high then. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 67, 1949
- It’s moot as hell whether the juice blunts or sharpens the senses. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 100, 1952
- At any rate, I’ve fixed up a real wild basket of ribs and a bottle of juice. — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 37, 1955
- “Nuthin’ at all like juice, either,” Hassan said. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 22, 1961
- But what he was doing the whole time was mixing up this juice he calls Summer Snow. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 62, 1966
- I’d go over to North Beach, and I remember ... most people, at least publicly, used juice instead of pot. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 66, 1968
- Folks, this is it for tonight. I’ve locked the juice cabinet. I can’t let you kill yourself. Call me if you want anything except more juice. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 263, 1969
- I was enthralled by the stories of the impounded juice in the government storage houses. — Red Rudensky, The Gonif, p. 95, 1970
- “And furthermore,” I said, “you know that was my juice you drank there.” — James Carr, Bad, p. 142, 1975
- methadone, used to break an opiate addiction US, 1981
In many US clinics, the methadone given to recovering heroin addicts is mixed in orange juice so that it cannot be injected. - — Geoffrey Froner, Digging for Diamonds, p. 39, 1989
- Gino was dispensed juice at clinics in two counties and always had doses to sell. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 188, 1990
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 67, 1996
- a powdered narcotic dissolved for injection US
- — Anthony Romeo, The Language of Gangs, p. 19, 4 December 1962
- “Somebody get the juice.” — Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato, p. 38, 1978
- “I can only give him so much juice, and only so often.” — Cherokee Paul McDonald, Into the Green, p. 91, 2001
- crack cocaine mixed with marijuana US
- [A] fat ass J, of some bubonic chronic that made me choke[.] — Snoop Doggy Dogg, Gin and Juice, 1993
- anabolic steroids US
- But if one guy stays on the juice, then ego makes the rest stay on, since they want The Look. — Herb’s Wrestling Tidbits, 28 May 1992
- The Juice, a slang term for steroids, the use of which will now result in player suspensions. — The Boston Herald, 4 January 2004
- blood US, 1938
Among others, professional wrestling usage. - juice n. blood v.i. to bleed, usually as a result of blading. — rec.sports.pro-wrestling, 17 July 1990
- Great brawl in concession stand, quadruple juice. — Herb’s Wrestling Tidbits, 23 May 1992
- [O]ff to casualty with a couple of bags of juice hooked up over the royal bed. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 109, 1994
- — Los Angeles Times Magazine, 6 August 1995: “Palm latitudes: L.A. speak”
- I climbed into the ring and the match continued. “Nice juice, huh?” I said to Vader as he set me up for a monstrous forearm to the head. — Mick Foley, Mankind, p. 6, 1999
- I mean, it was one of the all time juices; he was gushing like a stuck pig. — Missy Hyatt, Missy Hyatt, p. 53, 2001
- He’d get a lot of juice, which meant he bled a lot. — Bobby Heenan, Bobby the Brain, p. 114, 2002
- in drag racing and hot rodding, any special blend of racing fuel US
- — Olney Ross, Kings of the Drag Strip, p. 187, 1968
- petrol, diesel UK, 1909
- — Complete CB Slang Dictionary, 1976
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 156, 1981
- — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 10, 2000
- nitroglycerin, used by thieves to blow open vaults or safes US, 1924
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 806, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- energy UK
- Glastonbury is losing its juice, man. Its like a big hippie hangover[.] — The Guardian, p. 6, 28 June 2004
- sex BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 116, 1982
- pleasure, satisfaction UK
- It is of little interest or juice to them how a record came to be. — Paolo Hewitt, Heaven’s Promise, p. 121, 1999
- power, influence, sway US, 1957
- The Hoffa juice in Las Vegas came from the Teamsters Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund[.] — Ed Reid and Ovid Demaris, The Green Felt Jungle, p. 83, 1963
- Upstairs at Apple there is this one room where you make it if you got juice enough to get past the receptionist. — The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, p. 70, March 1971
- The vic [victim’s] father has juice with the City Council[.] — Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem, p. 44, 1999
- a bribe UK, 1698
- Thousands of dollars were spent on bribes–“juice”–blanketing the police force from top to bottom[.] — Ed Reid and Ovid Demaris, The Green Jungle, p. 19, 1963
- You really didn’t know top wanted some juice? — Stan Lee, The ’Nam, p. 15, 1987
- interest paid to a loan shark US, 1935
- A hundred a week juice for as long as the loan is out. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 69, 1979
- You owe fifteen plus the fifteen hundred juice and another fifteen hundred for expenses, driving here from Miami. — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 19, 1995
- You owe me the dry cleaner’s fifteen grand plus the juice which is what, another–ahh – — Get Shorty, 1995
- You’re in above the neck, son. You owe me folding, plus the juice. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 10, 1997
- in sports betting, the bookmaker’s commission US
- All you are betting is the “juice,” the one point to win twenty. — Jimmy Snyder, Jimmy the Greek, p. 208, 1975
- — Bay Sports Review, p. 8, November 1991
- in pool, spin imparted to the cue ball to affect the course of the object ball or the course of the cue ball after it strikes the object ball US
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 127, 1993
- surging surf with big waves US
- — Douglas Simonson, Pidgin to da Max, 1981
- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, 1991
- in a deck of playing cards, a two US
An intentional corruption of DEUCE. - — American Speech, p. 99, May 1951: “The vocabulary of poker”
- semen US
- She was afraid, because he’d shot a lot of juice into her, that she might get knocked up. — Juan Carmel Cosmes, Memoir of a Whoremaster, p. 32, 1969
- He’d been having trouble keeping himself from spewing his hot juice into her mouth since very shortly after she’d started in on him. — Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Last Man, p. 45, 1994
- Aurora coughed a little when Dante’s cock shot his juice into her mouth. — Justus Roux, Mistress Angelique, p. 74, 2004
- credibility, respect US
- They convert because Muslims in prison, even though not a gang, still have a certain amount of “juice”–street slang for “respect and credibility.” — Baltimore Sun, p. 1B, 9 June 2007
▶ get some juice on to achieve a drug intoxication US- Give me another tab so I can get some juice on — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing Dope Tails, p. 110, 1980
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