pickle Definition

1. A preserve of vegetables, eg onions, cucumber or cauliflower, in vinegar, salt water or a tart sauce.

Form: pickles (also)
2. A vegetable preserved in this way.
3. The liquid used for this preserve.
4. colloq
A mess; a quandary; a predicament.
Example: got herself in a terrible pickle
Thesaurus: bind, dilemma, quandary, predicament, jam (slang), difficulty, scrape, straits, fix (slang), tight spot (slang), hot water (slang).
5. colloq
A troublesome child.

pickled, pickling
1. To preserve something in vinegar, salt water, etc.

Thesaurus: preserve, conserve, marinate.