Pickle
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:14 ptsWWF:17 pts6 letters
Definition of Pickle
Noun
- A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
"A pickle goes well with a hamburger."
- Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- The brine used for preserving food.
"This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into."
- A difficult situation; peril.
"The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off."
Verb
- To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
"We pickled the remainder of the crop."
- To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
"The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning."
- To serialize.
- To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
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