Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(a) (US, also juice back, juice down, juice (it) up, zhoosh) to drink alcohol, to get drunk; thus juicing n. and adj.

1893		G.I. Putnam In Blue Uniform 165: They proceeded with the usual process of juicing down and getting all the drunkenness they could out of their pay.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 371: juice: [...] (v.) to drink a lot.
1949		‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 145: Sometimes I’d juice up.
1956		W. Burroughs letter 13 Oct. in Harris (1993) 335: I don’t juice and I don’t mainline.
1960		‘Lord Buckley’ Hiparama of the Classics 21: Nero is havin’ a ball, he’s diggin’ this mad game, he’s juicin’ up a storm, chompin’ on his crazy pills.
1965		(con. 1940s) Malcolm X Autobiog. (1968) 140: Everybody blew gage and juiced back and jumped.
1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Mama Black Widow 224: We were juicing and chattering drunkenly.
1972		L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 107: One night [...] I had a friend over juicing it up.
1985		(con. 1968) D.A. Dye Citadel (1989) 181: Gonna do some juicing here, man.
1993		T. Jones Pugilist at Rest 213: How come you’re juicing again, man?
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 299/1: zhoosh, jhoosh [...] 3. to drink.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 151: A booze-hound bachelor and a cloistered closet queen. He juiced at the Raincheck Room.

(b) (US) to milk a cow, also used facetiously.

1915		DN III 227: juice, v.t. to milk. Formerly very common, this word is now chiefly used facetiously.
1928		‘Nebraska Sandhill Talk’ AS IV:2 131: To ‘juice a cow’ or to ‘pail a cow’ is to milk one.
1951		in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 298/1: Bill takes venom from the snakes [...] as nonchalantly as a farmer juices a gentle Jersey cow .
1965–70		in DARE.

(c) to render drunk.

1958

Southern & Hoffenberg Candy (1970) 86: Schnapps! Steinhagen from the Tyrol! It’ll juice you to the gills!

(d) (Aus.) to administer a drug to a horse to alter its performance.

2013

D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] ‘That’s what the vet was going to squeal about, before he was bashed [...] the juicing’.

(a) (US) to electrocute, to kill or torture with electricity.

1929		M.A. Gill Und. Sl. n.p.: Juiced – Electrocuted.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks n.p.: Juice him, to get information by torture.
2000		Guardian Rev. 21 Jan. 23: Just before he gets juiced, the Man asks if he has anything to say.

(b) (orig. US, also juice up) to increase the power of a machine, usu. an automobile.

1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1967		E. Shepard Doom Pussy 221: He drove as though his machine was a juiced-up golf cart.
1968		T. Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1969) 41: Shazam! — juice it up to what it’s already aching to be: 327,000 horsepower, a whole superhighway long and soaring, screaming on towards . . . Edge City.

(c) (US black, also juice up) to intensify, to augment, to liven up, to excite.

1964		Time 23 Oct. 61: A thing like that can really juice you up.
1987		R. Campbell Alice in La-La Land (1999) 116: Another shot of adrenaline juiced his nerves.
1998		L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 112: Unlike some of his newfound circle of friends, I won’t juice his ego for a shot of his cash.
2002		J. Ellroy ‘Where I Get My Weird Shit’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 37: I returned to school. I juiced the escape process.

(d) (US, also juice up) to attack with a weapon, to fire a gun, to stab.

1972		C. Fuller Jr ‘Love Song for Wing’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 142: He holds all the check and is known for juicin’ people just cause they smoke the wrong cigarettes.
1983		(con. 1970) S. Wright Meditations in Green (1985) 189: ‘Juice ’em,’ he shouted, ‘give ’em the fucking juice.’.
2018-20		T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Juice (up) - stab.

(e) to provide with electrical power.

2002		J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 78: I hit it with all the energy the emcee lacked and enough left over to juice Staten Island.
2012		T. Robinson ‘Legendary [...] Ralphie O’Malley’ in Dirty Words [ebook] ‘I just keep switching and re-charging the batteries when I need to. Forgot to juice both’.

(f) to take steroids, thus juicer, one who does so.

2005		D. Grann ‘Stealing Time’ in New Yorker 12 Sept. 54/1: ‘My God, could you imagine Rickey on ‘roids? [...] Maybe if they weren’t juicing there’d still be a spot on a ball club for me.
2012		R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 139: [T]here’s no denying the scope of the wreckage caused by needles around baseball, by the so-called steroid era, and by all the artificially fueled feats that came with them. [...] How many long balls hit by juicers would’ve died on the track.
2020		Twitter 31 May 🌐 I have seen cops working out in the weight-room in my lily-white, suburban gym, and there is no way that they aren't juicing heavily.

(a) to bribe, esp. in context of organized crime paying off the authorities.

1953

R. Chandler Long Good-Bye 65: I got to make lots of dough to juice the guys I got to juice in order to make lots of dough to juice the guys I got to juice.

(b) to add interest to a loan, debt.

1973

G.V. Higgins Digger’s Game (1981) 87: You’re gonna juice me over three points a week on eighteen?

(c) to extort money, through threats or trickery.

1987

NWA ‘Dopeman’ 🎵 Juice that fool for as much as you can.

(a) to speak persuasively; to seduce; esp. for personal gain.

1944		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam News 8 Apr. 8B: The music studs were juicing the chicks, and the squares were playing the juke box for their kicks.
1986		MC Lyte ‘I Cram to Understand U’ 🎵 Juicin the girls up for some money and a lay.
2012		‘Dutch’ ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] You must be one of them bitches that juice nigguhs, huh?

(b) (also juice up) of a woman, to become damp with sexual arousal; to reach orgasm.

1962		R. Desmond Without Violence 94: He had so humiliated her, and consequently so excited her, that she juiced within a minute of his crude knifing of her.
1970		‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 110: fell down on her, slamming it all the way in and she caught it, held it, juiced it with a clockwise rotation and then spread beneath me.
1981		E. Landon Sodomy Anyone? n.p.: She slowly eased forward and with one hand on his head pushed her muff at his mouth. ‘Lick quick, darling,’ she urged, ‘I’m about to juice’.
1991		W.T. Vollmann Whores for Gloria 69: Your little thing is starting to juice up and shit.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 36: Her teenage mott juiced up like a split fig.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 170: Juicing all over my fingers .

(c) (also juice up) to stimulate one’s female partner to sexual arousal.

1970		‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 67: But I must admit if a maid had walked in just then, I would have jumped her and juiced her without even asking for her name.
1999		S.N. Wagnels Not With My Daughter! Part 28 🌐 She groaned at the rough entering of the young man’s cock in her cunt. ‘Hey Chief, she’s dry,’ he said to Larcher. ‘Somebody juice her up.’ Larcher responded.

(d) (orig. US black/campus) to have sexual intercourse.

1971		S. Stevens Way Uptown 173: ’Stead of juicing the fox, you could drink it up or shoot it up.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U.
2003		Dizzee Rascal ‘Jezebel’ 🎵 Juiced every boy in the ends.
2016		Skepta ‘Ladies Hit Squad’ 🎵 She’s just upset cause she got juiced in the bunk bed / And you know, she's not wife.

(e) (US gay) of a man, to sweat, esp. during sex.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 119: juice [...] 4. to sweat, especially when sexually stimulated.

(f) (US) to dampen with vaginal secretions.

1990

S. Morgan Homeboy 5: The happy everafter reverie [...] had juiced the crotch of her new Career Girl getup, as in damp . . . d-a-m-p.

(g) (US) in fig. use, to get excited.

2000

C. Cook Robbers (2001) 173: Maybe some gal along for the ride now, juicing off the guys, excited.