joy juice
A cheerful, euphemistic slang term for alcoholic drink — any booze that puts people in a good mood.
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A cheerful, euphemistic slang term for alcoholic drink — any booze that puts people in a good mood. Joy juice is casual, affectionate language for alcohol, the kind of phrase you'd hear at a backyard barbecue or in a comedy sketch rather than a bar fight. It deliberately emphasizes the fun side of drinking and tends to appear in lighthearted contexts. The phrase is broad enough to cover everything from cheap beer to fancy cocktails, as long as the good times are the point.
Someone passed around a pitcher of homemade joy juice that tasted like fruit punch and hit like a freight train.
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(slang) alcoholic drink.
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