juicing

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The process of pressing or extracting the liquid from fruit, vegetables, or other produce.

   Like pressing grapes until only the liquid is left.

   Commercial juicing separates the liquid from the fiber on a large scale.

   Many health trends promote juicing as a way to consume more vegetables.

   Similarpressing, extraction

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of juice.

   He is juicing fresh limes for the evening cocktails.

   The kitchen staff are juicing crates of grapefruit before the lunch rush.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every sense of the verb, not only the kitchen one. With an object it extracts juice or gives something a jolt, as in juicing limes. Without an object, in slang, someone who is juicing is taking performance-enhancing drugs, so "he's been juicing" rarely means fruit. A further slang use, transitive and sexual, makes the bare form risky in casual talk. As a gerund it overlaps with the noun for the extraction process, but only the noun takes a plural, juicings.

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