EGAVE

pickle

About 0.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
    A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
  2. noun Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
  3. noun A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
  4. noun The brine used for preserving food.
    This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
  5. noun A difficult situation; peril.
    The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
  6. noun A mildly mischievous loved one.
  7. noun A rundown.
    Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
  8. noun A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
    The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.

Similar words

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Often followed by

and relish for jar in factory is the liquor

Word family

pickled pickles pickling

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