Pickle (noun)
A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
“A pickle goes well with a hamburger.”
Pickle (noun)
Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
Pickle (noun)
The brine used for preserving food.
“This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.”
Pickle (noun)
A difficult situation; peril.
“The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.”
Pickle (noun)
A mildly mischievous loved one.
Pickle (noun)
A rundown.
“Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.”
Pickle (noun)
A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
“The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.”
Pickle (noun)
A penis.
Pickle (noun)
A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
“Load some shards in that pickle.”
Pickle (noun)
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.
Pickle (noun)
In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
Pickle (noun)
A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
Pickle (noun)
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.
Pickle (verb)
To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
“We pickled the remainder of the crop.”
“These cucumbers pickle very well.”
Pickle (verb)
To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
“The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.”
Pickle (verb)
To serialize.
Pickle (verb)
To eat sparingly.
Pickle (verb)
To pilfer.
Gherkin (noun)
A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
Gherkin (noun)
The penis.
Pickle (noun)
a relish consisting of vegetables or fruit preserved in vinegar or brine
“cheese and pickle”
“assorted pickles”
Pickle (noun)
a pickled cucumber.
Pickle (noun)
liquid used to preserve food or other perishable items.
Pickle (noun)
a difficult situation
“I am in a pickle”
Pickle (noun)
used as an affectionate form of address to a mischievous child
“‘All right, me pickle’, said Dad”
Pickle (noun)
an acid solution for cleaning metal objects.
Pickle (verb)
preserve (food or other perishable items) in vinegar or brine
“fish pickled in brine”
Pickle (verb)
immerse (a metal object) in an acid or other chemical solution for cleaning
“the steel sheet is first pickled in acid to remove all oxides”
Gherkin (noun)
the small green fruit of a plant related to the cucumber, used for pickling.
Gherkin (noun)
the trailing plant that bears gherkins.