pickle

Plural: pickles

Noun

• vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
• informal terms for a difficult situation
• A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
• Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
• A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
• The brine used for preserving food.
• A difficult situation; peril.
• A mildly mischievous loved one.
• A rundown.
• A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
• A penis.
• A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
• 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.
• A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: pickled, pickling, pickles

• To preserve food in a solution of brine or vinegar.
• preserve in a pickling liquid
• To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
• To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
• To serialize.
• To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
• To eat sparingly.
• To pilfer.

Examples

• A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
• He tried to PICKLE his opponent’s chances by blocking all triple word scores.
• Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
• Load some shards in that pickle.
• The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
• The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
• The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
• These cucumbers pickle very well.
• This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
• We pickled the remainder of the crop.

Synonyms

fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, D, Donkey Kong, John Thomas, Jonathan, Master John Goodfellow, Percy, Yiddish), anaconda, ass in a sling, bald-headed hermit, baloney pony, banana, bind, birdie, bobby, boonga, bucket of syrup, cack, calvary, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, colloquial, corey, crank, cross, cross to bear, cucumber, custard launcher, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, difficulty, dilemma, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dingaling, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dire straits, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, doghouse, dong, donger, doodle, dork, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hoo-hoo, hooter, hot dog, hot rod, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, jock, johnson, joint, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love sausage, love stick, love truncheon, love wand, machine, magnum, male member, man-meat, manhood, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meat stick, meatstick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, ordeal, organ, p-word, package, pecker, pee-pee, pee-wee, peen, pego, penis, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pinch, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plight, plonker, pork sword, predicament, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, python, quagmire, quandary, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (qualifier, short arm, situation, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, spot, spot of bother, stem, sticky situation, sticky wicket, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, tight spot, todger, tool, trouble, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widdler, widgie, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang

Related Words

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