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pickled

verb

Meaning

  1. To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
  2. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
  3. (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
  4. To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
  5. To eat sparingly.
  6. To pilfer.
  7. Preserved by pickling.
  8. Drunk.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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