pickle

1. Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. (countable, uncountable)
2. The brine used for preserving food. (countable, uncountable) · This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
3. A difficult situation; peril. (countable, informal, uncountable) · The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
4. A mildly mischievous loved one. (countable, uncountable)
5. A rundown. (countable, uncountable) · Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
6. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown (uncountable) · The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
7. A penis. (countable, slang, uncountable)
8. A pipe for smoking methamphetamine. (countable, slang, uncountable) · Load some shards in that pickle.

Plural pickles