26984 words

pickles

7 definitions • 7 examples
1
a vegetable or fruit in vinegar or in salty water, especially a cucumber:

Examples:

Have some pickles with your sandwich.
2
a sauce made from vegetables in vinegar with spices added:

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3

Examples:

I hope that you can help, because this is quite a pickle.
4
in baseball, a situation where a player is between two bases (= positions that a player must reach to score a point) and cannot safely either advance to the next one or return to the previous one:

Examples:

The runner strayed too far from third base and was caught in a pickle.
5
to put vegetables or fruit in a vinegar sauce or salty water and store them this way in a glass container:

Examples:

be pickled in The onions had been pickled in brine.
6
a cucumber (= a green, tube-shaped vegetable) that has been preserved in a liquid containing salt and other spices or vinegar:

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