Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(a) wealthy; financially rewarding [underpinned by the extraction of juice n.¹ (1b)].

1621		R. Sanderson Sermons 1 Cor. vii. 24 328: Those parcel-gallants that have no other use of their wits, but to distil a kind of maintenance from juycy heirs and flush novices by play [OED].
1900		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 22 Sept. 7/1: [headline] how the horton law / Enabled Fighters and Managers to Accumulate / fat and juicy bank-rolls.
1906		A.H. Lewis Confessions of a Detective 50: Here you are, holding down the juiciest beat in the precinct.
1907		B. Fisher A. Mutt in Blackbeard Compilation (1977) 6: Can you imagine losing a juicy one by that much.
1930		M. Fiaschetti You Gotta Be Rough 107: [T]here were fights among the mob for leadership in the scheme [i.e., the ‘Italian Lottery’]. [...] The swag was so juicy you couldn’t blame anyone for wanting to dip into it.
1940		R.L. Bellem ‘Death’s Passport’ in Goodstone Pulps (1970) 112/1: They laid plans for the juiciest publicity coup that ever came out of Poverty Row.
1952		(con. 1920s) ‘Harry Grey’ Hoods (1953) 105: I’m getting a juicier one [i.e. robbery] than this lined up.
1958		Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 121: Everyone knows it’s the juiciest part of town [i.e. for prostitution].
1981		J. Elllroy Brown’s Requiem 172: ‘I've got a juicy nine-holer waiting for you.’ [...] ‘A twenty-dollar nine-holer. Thanks, Rod’ .
2000		P. Earley Super Casino 268: Schaeffer was now lowering that figure to $1.08 a share. By other companies’ standards, that was still a juicy return.

(b) excellent, first-rate.

1802		Sporting Mag. July XX 230/2: Hear it thou shalt, but first one juicy quid.
1883		J. Greenwood Odd People in Odd Places 59: ‘Let me play you a tune, then.’ [...] ‘All right, then. Play us something juicy.’.
1896		Ade Artie (1963) 7: Puttin’ up the large, juicy con talk.
1900		Sporting Times 24 Mar. 2/3: My new work, ‘the great game,’ a Treatise on the Turf, will be published on Tuesday, April 3. All juicy!
1908		B. Fisher A. Mutt in Blackbeard Compilation (1977) 154: Copped 180 bones. Pretty juicy.
1915		Day Book (Chicago) 18 Mar. 14/1: The down-and-out never overlooks an opportunity to pick all the ‘juicy’ butts and snipes that happen to come within the range of vision.
1922		S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 140: Sounds like a juicy show to me.
1938		J.E. O’Donnell ‘Overcoat Bennie’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 In due course he found a juicy prospect, ‘Spud’ Gilhooley a heads-I-win-and-tails-you-lose gambler who had dealt many a hand from the bottom of a stacked deck to credulous suckers.
1939		Wodehouse Uncle Fred in the Springtime 73: ‘[H]e managed to edge past the assegai and land me a juicy one on the jaw’.
1940		Louis Jordan ‘You Run Your Mouth and I’ll Run My Business’ 🎵 You run your juicy mouth and I’ll run my business, brother.
1954		Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 150: She gave the sofa another juicy one.
1960		E. De Roo Big Rumble 22: Real good. Juicy good.
1971		B. Malamud Tenants (1972) 68: Art can kiss my juicy ass.
2002		Earley & Shur WITSEC 49: [H]e was able to implicate his top two underlings: Freddy Randaccio and Patsy Natarelli. Both were juicy targets.

(c) pleasant, enjoyable.

1909		R. Service ‘The Man from Eldorado’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 70: ‘Who’s for a juicy two-step?’ cries the master of the floor.
1923		Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 3: It is a juicy morning.
1949		Wodehouse Mating Season 5: He agreed that the set-up could have been juicier.
1960		E. De Roo Big Rumble 129: I dreamed about it last night. It was juicy delicious.
1970		E. Thompson Garden of Sand (1981) 89: He [...] staggered toward the bed, talking to his dick. ‘Pete, you never had such a good time as this, have you? You ain’t never been in somethin so plumb juicy fine in your life.’.
1983		N. Heard House of Slammers 6: Anyone could see that this was going to lead to something juicy.
2000		C. Cook Robbers (2001) 4: A juicy music scene in the rambunctious downtown club district.

(a) suggestive, racy, sexy; thus n. juiciness.

a.1695		‘The Old Fumbler’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 167: Smug, rich and fantastick old Fumbler was known, / That Wedded a Juicy brisk Girl of the Town.
1696		Motteux (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk IV 271: A brisk, plump, juicy female.
1725		View of London & Westminster (2nd part) : [in a list of prostitutes] Miss Jenny Juicy.
1786		Nunnery Amusements 25: When a juicy Girl provokes the lust.
1880		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 31 Jan. 5/2: Rumor are flying thick and fast that the trial will lead to some [...] startling developments, rivaling in ‘juiciness’ the famous Haymond-Saucer case.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 30 May 6/1: The Premier of Queensland has a juicy humour of his own when doors are closed and the hot toddy is tossed around. At a meeting of Scotchmen […] he ‘declared it as his opinion that the effect of the national costume of Scotland on the ladies of the colony would be very great, and productive of much enthusiasm.’ There is a giddy sentiment for you to proceed from the mouth of a grave statesman!
1929		M. Levin Reporter 284: Two juicy girls stood on the L platform.
1938		R. Chandler ‘The King in Yellow’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 83: He went out preening himself, as the fellow says. Hinting about a very juicy date.
1946		S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 36: His language, much of which is unprintable, is very ripe, juicy and to the point.
1951		Kerouac On the Road (The Orig. Scroll) (2007) 248: Some pretty juicy dolls downtown, too.
1961		C. Cooper Jr Weed (1998) 118: She was soft as hell and all juicy-like with a man when she loosed up.
1971		Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 6: Well, couldn’t you water things down a bit? Omit one or two of the juiciest episodes?
1986		L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 154: Get a couple of nice juicy pieces to jump into that sack of yours.
1998		(con. 1960s) G. Washington Blood Brothers 11: Oh, she was a juicy momma!
2000		Observer Screen 4 June 26: She’s so juicy.
2012		T. Robinson ‘Hot Enough For Ya?’ in Dirty Words [ebook] ‘I heard Jonathan hollering [...] Sounded kinda juicy, no offence, so I hung around’.

(b) dramatic, exciting.

1886		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 17 Apr. 2/2: ‘The Giddy Gusher’ is Mrs Steve Fiske [...] What she writes is always juicy and interesting.
1909		A. Quiller-Couch True Tilda 82: Though many had occasion to curse Mr. Hucks, few could bring themselves to hate him. The rogue was so massive, so juicy.
1916		C.J. Dennis ‘Ginger’s Cobber’ in Moods of Ginger Mick 52: But say, yeh’d think ole Ginger wus a pote / If yeh could read some juicy bits ’e’s wrote.
1920		O.O. McIntyre New York Day by Day 12 Oct. [synd. col.] When the history of New York hotel profiteering is written some juicy facts will be revealed.
1942		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 15 Aug. 14: Few items have proved as juicy as this classic of off-base playing in dicty circles.
1945		G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 182: Then he told me the whole plan, Hugh, and pretty juicy it is, too!
1978		H.R. Haldeman Ends of Power 81: [B]y pressing a switch under his desk, LBJ could turn the recorder on or off, thereby omitting some very juicy conversations.
1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 35: Pick a nice juicy subject like what a shithouse holiday you’ve had.

(c) intellectually stimulating.

1999

C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 63: There was the prospect of another case: a big, fat, juicy puzzle.