Juul

English

A Juul electronic cigarette.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jo͞ol; IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuːl/

  • Audio (Southern England, like "joule"); /d͡ʒuːl/:

    (file)

• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʉl/
• Homophones: joule, jewel (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -uːl

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Juul

1. A brand of electronic cigarette produced by Juul Labs.

Noun

Juul (plural Juuls)

1. A particular electronic cigarette of this type.
   • 2018 December 18, Jan Hoffman, “How to Help Teenagers Quit Vaping”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-25:

     While adolescents are canny enough to hide their Juuls from you, they don't really believe that vaping is harmful.

   • 2018 December 20, “How a way to quit smoking morphed into a teen vaping epidemic”, in CBC News‎^[2], archived from the original on 2021-10-23:

     A Juul is an e-cigarette that looks like a USB thumb drive and uses a "pod" system for refills.

   • 2022 July 11, Arielle Pardes, “Juul Nears Its Last Gasp—After It Hooked a Generation on Vaping”, in Wired‎^[3], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-17:

     [Jason] Jeong, the Cornell graduate, says his peers stopped using Juuls when the company discontinued its popular flavors. People liked mint, which remained on the shelves, but no one wanted to puff on a tobacco-flavored Juul.

   • 2023 January 10, Alyx Gorman, “Vaping transformed me into a nicotine fiend. Quitting has been a year-long project”, in The Guardian‎^[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-03:

     But by spring of that year, nobody had a lighter – everyone had started vaping instead. So I followed my friends and jumped off the cliff: I bought a Juul.

Verb

Juul (third-person singular simple present Juuls, present participle Juuling, simple past and past participle Juuled)

1. (intransitive) To smoke a Juul.
   • 2018 September 14, Mark E. Horowitz, quotee, “The F.D.A.'s Crackdown on Teenage Vaping”, in The New York Times‎^[5], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-27:

     Just this week, while taking a history from a 19-year-old young man, I asked him if he smoked cigarettes. The answer was no. I then asked him if he vaped. He answered that he used a Juul. When asked how many times a day, he replied that he Juuled continuously, all day.

   • 2019 September 12, Petula Dvorak, “JUUL and kids: Why you should be worried if your teen smells like berries, cotton candy or mint”, in The Washington Post‎^[6], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-13:

     I took my tween to a concert last month at the state fair in Minnesota, and we were possibly the only two people in the crowd near the stage who weren't Juuling.

   • 2019 October 10, Kari Paul, “Breaking up with my Juul: why quitting vaping is harder than quitting cigarettes”, in The Guardian‎^[7], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-26:

     When I Juuled, I didn't take smoke breaks – I had grown accustomed to puffing away all day at my desk, and even more on stressful deadlines.

   • 2019 August 29, Maura Judkis, “Antoni Porowski is more than 'Queer Eye's' avocado hunk. With his new cookbook, he's ready to prove it.”, in The Washington Post‎^[8], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-15:

     His life: […] He [Antoni Porowski] knows he shouldn't, but he Juuls (mint, in case you were wondering).

   • 2019 September 25, Hannah Smothers, quoting Pnina Weiss, “If I Vape, Do I Check the "I Smoke" Box on Medical Forms at the Doctor's Office?”, in VICE‎^[9], archived from the original on 2022-10-02:

     That is the most important change over the last couple weeks for me... Do you vape? Do you Juul? Very bluntly. It's part of what I ask now.

   • 2021 May 25, Sheelah Kolhatkar, “Juul Wanted to Disrupt Big Tobacco. Instead It Created an Epidemic of Addiction.”, in The New York Times‎^[10], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-08:

     Perhaps the most fascinating, and darkly comedic, anecdote in "The Devil's Playbook" comes when Juul meets some of its fiercest critics: several wealthy California financiers who become incensed when they learn that their own kids and their kids' friends are Juuling.

Derived terms

• Juuler
• Juuling (noun)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Juul

1. A male given name from Danish or Norwegian.
2. A surname from Danish or Norwegian.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Juul is the 45653^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 468 individuals. Juul is most common among White (90.81%) individuals.

Further reading

• Juul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juul (name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia