Pickle

Noun

 * 1) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
 * A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
 * 1) (Often in plural: pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
 * 2) The brine used for preserving food.
 * This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
 * 1) A difficult situation, peril.
 * 2) An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved one
 * 3)  A rundown.
 * Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
 * 1) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
 * The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
 * 1)  A penis.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:penis

Derived terms

 * in a pickle

Verb

 * 1) To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
 * We pickled the remainder of the crop.
 * 1) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
 * The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
 * 1)   To serialize.

Derived terms

 * pickled
 * pickling

Noun

 * 1)  A kernel, grain
 * 2)  A bit, small quantity

Thesaurus
acid, acidulant, anhydrate, baffle, bafflement, bearings, bewilderment, bind, blast-freeze, booze up, boozify, bother, box, bread-and-butter pickle, brine, case, chokecherry, circumstance, clutch, complication, condition, confoundment, confusion, corn, corner, crab apple, crock, crunch, cure, dehydrate, desiccate, dilemma, dill pickle, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, embalm, embarrassing position, embarrassment, enigma, estate, evaporate, fine how-do-you-do, fix, footing, freeze, freeze-dry, fuddle, fume, green apple, hell to pay, hobble, hole, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, irradiate, jam, jerk, kipper, lemon, lime, location, lot, marinade, marinate, mess, mix, modality, mode, morass, mummify, mystery, nonplus, overtake, parlous straits, pass, perplexity, perturbation, pinch, place, plaster, plight, pollute, position, posture, pother, predicament, preservatize, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, quagmire, quandary, quick-freeze, quicksand, rank, refrigerate, riddle, salt, scrape, season, situation, slough, smoke, smoke-cure, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sourdough, souse, spot, squeeze, standing, state, station, status, stew, sticky wicket, stone, strait, straits, stuff, swack, swamp, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tipsify, tricky spot, unassuredness, unholy mess, upset, verjuice, vinegar, yogurt

Alternative forms

 * pickel