grapefruit juice
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈɡreɪpˌfrut dʒus/
:
jugo de pomelo
- I just came to get a glass of grapefruit juice.
As a kid, anything acidic like grapefruit juice, orange juice, hot sauce hurts my tongue.
- As a kid, anything acidic like grapefruit juice, orange juice, hot sauce hurts my tongue.
- Then throughout the day, OK, on top of that, let's just say you have caffeine plus a little bit of grapefruit juice.
Examples
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I went inside and fixed us glasses of gin and grapefruit juice and brought them back out onto the porch.
Fiction book (1998) -
Prepare a glass of grapefruit juice and add an equal quantity of water to the concentrated mixture.
Blog text (16) -
Would you like your grapefruit juice now?
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A number 7, over easy, and a grapefruit juice.
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Well, do you like grapefruit juice?
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Would you like grapefruit juice?
Fiction book (1999) -
A nurse heard his voice and offered a glass of grapefruit juice.
Fiction book (1996) -
"I'll have an English muffin and grapefruit juice," I say.
Fiction book (1996) -
Grapefruit juice will do.
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Would you like your grapefruit juice now?
Synonyms
12
1.0
A drink you get by squeezing fresh fruit
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'juice extracted from grapefruits' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'grapefruit' (a citrus fruit) with 'juice' (liquid extracted). This modifier+head noun compound follows a common compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Grapefruit juice comes from the name of the fruit and the liquid you get when you squeeze it. grapefruit was named because its fruits grow in bunches like grapes, and juice is the liquid from a fruit, so 'grapefruit juice' means the 'drink' made by squeezing a grapefruit.