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vape juice

vape juice

6.9
Liquid that contains nicotine and flavor used in e-cigarettes
  • noun
  • /veɪp dʒuːs/
  • Neologism
translation icon : líquido para vapeo
  • Many people prefer to customize their vape juice with different levels of nicotine.

Examples

  • What they're doing is they're cutting the vape juice or the yeah, the vape juice with vitamin E, OK, to make to, you know, cut costs.

  • He bought a bottle of vape juice that had a fruity flavor.

  • She filled her e-cigarette with vape juice before heading out.

Surface Forms

vape juice singular
vape juices plural
e-liquids plural
e-liquid singular

Morphology

vape + juice

The meaning 'liquid used in electronic cigarettes' is directly composed from 'vape' (the act/device for producing inhaled vapor) and 'juice' (a liquid), so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it is the liquid used for vaping. This noun-noun compound follows a transparent compositional pattern common cross-linguistically, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners familiar with the two words.

Etymology

The compound vape juice mixes vape, the cloud you breathe from an e-cigarette, and juice, a simple word for a 'liquid'. Picture a small bottle of juice that you pour into the device to make its flavored vapor, and that image explains why the phrase means the e-cigarette liquid today.