1. The liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking
   "She drank fresh orange juice every morning"; "The chef used the meat juices to make a gravy"
    
2. Any of several liquids of the body
   "digestive juices";
   - succus
    
3. [informal] Electric current
   "when the wiring was finished they turned on the juice"
    
4. Energetic vitality
   "her creative juices were flowing"
    
5. [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]
    
6. [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
   "during the war the government imposed rationing of food and juice";
   - gasoline [N. Amer], gasolene [N. Amer], gas [N. Amer], petrol [Brit]
    
7. [N. Amer, informal] Power, influence, or energy, especially in a social or professional context
   "He's got the juice to make things happen in this town"

1. Extract juice from (e.g. by squeezing)
   "She juiced the oranges for fresh breakfast juice"

Derived forms: juicing, juiced, juices

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 [formal], street drug, vim, vitality

Part of: gasohol

Encyclopedia: Juice