A Quick and Simple Dictionary

pickle

1. Noun.  A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
2. Noun.  (''Often in plural: pickles''), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
3. Noun.  The brine used for preserving food.
4. Noun.  A difficult situation, peril.
5. Noun.  An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved one.
6. Noun.  (baseball) A rundown.
7. Noun.  A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown.
8. Noun.  (slang) A penis.
9. Verb.  To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
10. Verb.  To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
11. Verb.  (programming) (context, in the Python programming language) To serialize.
12. Noun.  (Scotland) A kernel, grain.
13. Noun.  (Scotland) A bit, small quantity.