pickle
IPA: pˈɪkʌɫ
noun
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- (slang) A penis.
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (programming, in Python) To serialize.
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.
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Examples of "pickle" in Sentences
- Peanut butter and pickle is better than it sounds, though.
- Among comments there: The pickle is quintessentially 'Heinz' and is emblematic of your history.
- A hard corn taco of ground beef and pickle from a place called Malo Cantina Suavecita ... just awesome.
- How the script emerges from this pickle is a place of extreme spoiler territory and delicious screen surprise.
- 'Th' Rambler fr'm Clare 'beautifully on what they call a pickle-e-o befure they sarved a rayplivin writ on him.
- She calls his name, and her voice is small and tinny, like that of the fairies he catches in pickle jars and beg to be set free.
- UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: First you'll select the master arm switch, like you said, and then you'll press what we call the pickle button, right here.
- Trying to "ketchup" with consumer demand for healthier foods, H.J. Heinz dropped the gherkin pickle from the condiment's more-than-a-century-old label logo and spruced it up with a tomato on the vine with the slogan "Grown not made."
- I heard the "this pickle is as cream filled as the pickle that got me into this pickle" line, then saw a pee joke in the other video. 3 guesses which one I voted for. nofiFilms soul quest looks lame. does adult swim really need another aqua teen? will yes!
- Why once at a byker rally I had Cindy rub herself with burgers while the bykers licked her, I was really excited by all the greasy, burgers, but the onions and dill pickle is what really got me going …. ooops, speaking of going, I just went …. diaper change isle Johnny.
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