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

  • Can you pick up some pickles
  • She added pickles in her burger.
  • The pickles are preserved in a jar.
  • The lime is then rinsed off the pickles.
  • A pickle eating contest was held last spring.
  • Does anybody have the courage to meddle in the pickle
  • It is one of the most popular cucumber pickles in Sweden.
  • It normally consists of rice gruel and pickled vegetables.
  • In eastern Europe, the shoots are pickled and eaten as an appetizer.
  • Similar to the normal pickle, the fruit of the Bulgarian Pickle Tree is edible.

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