pickled
verb
- 1
To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
“These cucumbers pickle very well.”
- 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
(in the Python programming language) To serialize.
- 4
To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
verb
- 1
To eat sparingly.
- 2
To pilfer.
adjective
- 1
Preserved by pickling.
- 2
Drunk.
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