pickle

(Australia, Canada, US, countable, uncountable)(chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

A pickle goes well with a hamburger.

(countable, in plural, often, uncountable)(often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

(UK, countable, uncountable)A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.

(countable, uncountable)The brine used for preserving food.

This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.

(countable, informal, uncountable)A difficult situation; peril.

The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.

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(countable, endearing, uncountable)A mildly mischievous loved one.

(countable, uncountable)(baseball) A rundown.

Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.

(uncountable)A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown

The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.

(countable, slang, uncountable)A penis.

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(countable, slang, uncountable)A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.

Load some shards in that pickle.

(countable, uncountable)(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.

(countable, uncountable)In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.

(ergative, transitive)To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

We pickled the remainder of the crop.

These cucumbers pickle very well.

(transitive)To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.

The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.

(programming, in Python) To serialize.

(historical)To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.

On Wednesday 26 May, […] I had [an enslaved man] flogged and pickled and then made Hector shit in his mouth. […] In July, […] Gave [another enslaved man] a moderate whipping, pickled him well, made Hector shit in his mouth, […]

(Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive)To eat sparingly.

(Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive)To pilfer.