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1.nounA cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup."A pickle goes well with a hamburger."
2.noun(often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
3.nounThe brine used for preserving food."This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into."
4.nounA difficult situation; peril."The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off."
5.nounA mildly mischievous loved one.
6.nounA rundown."Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third."
7.nounA children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown"The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour."
8.nounA penis.
9.nounA pipe for smoking methamphetamine."Load some shards in that pickle."
10.nounA 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.
11.nounIn an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
12.verbTo preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution."These cucumbers pickle very well."
13.verbTo remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid."The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning."
14.verb(in the Python programming language) To serialize.
15.verbTo pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.