Entry · catalog no. 1076

juice

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noun · northeast ·

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Respect, influence, and clout — the standing that makes people listen to you and move for you.

“Once he got a little juice in the neighborhood, everybody wanted to be around him.”

Origin & Attribution

Long-running Black usage for power and respect, cemented by the 1992 film "Juice" starring Tupac Shakur, set among young men in Harlem.

Region of origin

West

Midwest

N.East

South

Nationwide / diaspora

northeast ·

Spoken by

$JUICEThe Record · cultural traction

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26 yrs

ahead of the mainstream

60/100

peak cultural energy

Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.

Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest

Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.

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Citations & Sources

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"Juice" — film · 1992

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Dictionary.com, "juice" — reference

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