Meaning
The sweet juice pressed from crushed sugar cane, drunk fresh — often with a squeeze of lime and a little ginger — as a cooling, energising treat. At markets and roadside stands the cane is fed through a hand or motor mill and the pale-green juice comes out foaming; it is served cold over ice. Where there is no mill, people simply peel a length of cane and chew it to suck out the same sweet juice.
Examples
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Buy a cup a cane juice from di mill.
Buy a cup of cane juice from the mill.
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Cane juice wid lime cool yuh down.
Cane juice with lime cools you down.
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Peel di cane an suck out di juice.
Peel the cane and suck out the juice.
Origin
From 'cane' (sugar cane) + 'juice'; fresh-pressed cane juice. See [[sky-juice]], [[bag-juice]].
How it’s used
Fresh-pressed sugar-cane juice, drunk cold. See [[sky-juice]], [[bag-juice]].