pickle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
2. 2
   noun (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
3. 3
   noun The brine used for preserving food.
4. 4
   noun A difficult situation; peril.
5. 5
   noun A mildly mischievous loved one.
6. 6
   noun A rundown.
7. 7
   noun A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
8. 8
   noun A penis.
9. 9
   noun A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
10. 10
    noun 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.
11. 11
    noun In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
12. 12
    verb To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
13. 13
    verb To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
14. 14
    verb (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
15. 15
    verb To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.