pickled

verb

  1. 1

    To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

    These cucumbers pickle very well.
  2. 2

    To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.

    The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
  3. 3

    (in the Python programming language) To serialize.

  4. 4

    To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.

verb

  1. 1

    To eat sparingly.

  2. 2

    To pilfer.

adjective

  1. 1

    Preserved by pickling.

  2. 2

    Drunk.

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