pickled
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Definitions ofpickled
- To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
Example: "These cucumbers pickle very well."
- To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
Example: "The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning."
- (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
- To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- To eat sparingly.
- To pilfer.
- Preserved by pickling.
- Drunk.
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