juice (redirected from juices up)

cow juice

Sl. milk. Here's a little cow juice to pour on your cereal.

See also: cow

juice something back

Sl. to drink all of something alcoholic, quickly. He juiced a beer back. Max juiced back another beer.

See also: back

juice something up 

1. Sl. to make something more powerful. How much did it cost to juice this thing up? Wally juiced up his car.

2. Sl. to turn on the electricity to something. It's time to juice the stage lights up. Juice up the stage lights.

See also: up

juice and cookies

trivial and uninteresting snacks or refreshments. The party was not much. Nothing but juice and cookies. After juice and cookies, we all went back into the meeting room for another hour of talk, talk, talk.

See also: and, cooky

juice up

Sl. to drink one or more alcoholic drinks. Hey, man, let's go out and juice up tonight. Stop juicing up every night.

See also: up

stew in one's own juice

Fig. to be left alone to suffer one's anger or disappointment. John has such a terrible temper. When he got mad at us, we just let him go away and stew in his own juice. After John stewed in his own juice for a while, he decided to come back and apologize to us.

See also: stew

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stew in your own juice/juices  (informal)

if you leave someone to stew in their own juice, you leave them to worry about something bad that has happened or something stupid they have done She'll calm down - just leave her to stew in her own juices for a bit.

See also: stew

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juice up something also juice something up

to make something more interesting or exciting The team's new forward has juiced up their games with fast passing and running. She finds songs no one remembers and juices them up with modern rhythms.

See also: up