Green’s Dictionary of Slang

juniper (juice) n.

gin.

1619		Rowlands Well met Gossip B4: For Gods loue quicke: some Iuniper sweete Brother.
1685		G. Meriton In Praise of York-shire Ale 3: Juniper, Brandy and Wine.
1687		C. Sedley Bellamira II i: She needs no Paint for Complexion, but ’twill not be amiss to use Juniper Water, for good Humor, she is so melancholy.
1709		N. Ward Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 239: Drink my Juniper-Ale, and ’till open the Tail, / Turn a Hypocrites Zeal into Farts.
1815		Westmoreland Gaz. 30 Jan. 1/4: A Female Window Smasher [...] long-famous for smashing windows [...] Two officers were then directed to take this neat example of ‘Juniper suckers’ [...] to Bridewell.
1816		Chester Chron. 6 Sept. 2/1: The real juniper juice must have been the waters of inspiration.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 107: Juniper — the general name of gin.
1832		Poor Man’s Guardian (London) 22 Dec. 6/2: I’m an orator too - I oil my tongue with juniper juice, says Duffey.
1841		‘The Miller’s Maid’ in Lloyd’s Companion 26 Sept. 4/2: A soft stream of the cordial balm of Juniper was passing down her throat.
1857		J.E. Ritchie Night Side of London 195: The pots of heavy and the quarterns of juniper are freely quaffed.
1867		R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 2: There’s many a poor creeter without so much as an old jacket to pawn for a toothful o’ juniper.
1872		Daily Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 26 Apr. 1/1: Atern gin distiller [...] desires to impart an old fruit flavor to his juniper juice.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1880		Daily Globe (St Paul, Minn.) 28 Dec. 4/1: The festive Swedes [...] mixed juniper juice with their Christmas, and each were repentant.
1893		St Paul Daily Globe (Minn.) 30 Sept. 3/3: Alice Downey, a saddle-colored damsel of unsavory repute, loaded up on a bad brand of juniper juice last night.
1904		Guthrie Daily Leader (OK) 28 Dec. 6/3: Chapman had enough of the juniper juice in him to be evil.
1905		Sporting Times 11 Mar. 2/3: The extortionate old harridan pulled out a bottle of very potent juniper, and under the spell of the third or fourth crack at it, Anita’s tongue loosened.
1915		S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 78: ‘But how about you and the juniper juice?’ ‘Oh, I could quit that easy if there was anything else to do.’.
1922		B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Mr. Ludlow sat in his room at the Morrison Hotel, a decanter of juniper juice at his elbow.
1930		R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 13: Pick up some fresh juniper juice on the way home.
1944		R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 Florrie Doddridge clipped you on the sconce with a fifth of juniper juice.
1947–53		W. Guthrie Seeds of Man (1995) 378: By juniper juice an’ by grassyhoppers, I’m sure gon’ta switch my tail over ta Study Butte.
1956		T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 187: He continued to extol to me the virtues of ‘juniper juice’.