Usually means: Preserved food using vinegar, salt.
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  1. pickle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pickle: Merriam-Webster
  3. pickle, pickle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pickle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pickle: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Pickle, pickle: Wordnik
  8. pickle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pickle, pickle: Wiktionary
  10. pickle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pickle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. Pickle, pickle: Dictionary.com
  14. pickle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pickle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pickle (Python), Pickle (app), Pickle (disambiguation), Pickle (python), Pickle, The Pickle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pickle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pickle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pickle: Rhymezone
  20. Pickle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pickle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. PICKLE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Pickle: American-Britih Dictionary
  24. Pickle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. pickle: FreeDictionary.org
  26. pickle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. Pickle: The Word Detective
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  1. pickle: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  2. pickle: Medical dictionary

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  2. pickle: Idioms

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  1. pickle, pickle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Pickle, The Pickle, pickle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
noun:  (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
noun:  (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
noun:  The brine used for preserving food.
noun:  (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
noun:  (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
noun:  (baseball) A rundown.
noun:  (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
noun:  (slang) A penis.
noun:  (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
noun:  (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.
noun:  In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
verb:  (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
verb:  (programming, in Python) To serialize.
verb:  (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland) 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:  (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
verb:  (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.
noun:  A surname.

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