juices

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of juice.

   The orange and apple juices sold out within an hour at the market stall.

   Cooks often save the pan juices to make a rich gravy.

   Note

   Most uses of juice are mass nouns: the liquid in a fruit, liquor in slang, the liquid something is packed in. The plural therefore usually signals kinds or servings, as with orange and apple juices on a menu. That counting follows the drink meaning, which takes a plural freely. In Scotland juice can mean a soft drink, so juices there may be fizzy rather than squeezed.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of juice.

   The new machine juices whole lemons in seconds.

   My grandmother juices fresh pomegranates whenever they are in season.

   Note

   The verb nearly always takes an object: she juices lemons, or, figuratively, a campaign juices the economy. Without an object it turns to slang, and an athlete who juices takes performance-enhancing drugs, so a bare "he juices" can sound like an accusation. Another slang use is sexual, which makes a human object risky. The spelling matches the plural noun, and word order tells them apart.

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