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/ˈpɪkəl/ · noun
(chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup..
A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle you're in.
by degrees my little pickle (who, as I told you at the beginning of the story, was the most troublesome child I ever came across) turned into a very well-behaved young gentleman.
... If you could get my little pickle to learn his multiplication table before you leave us, you shall have that musical box to take home with you.
'And now,' she said, 'what about that kiss my little pickle was going to give his old Auntie?'
Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
Use pickle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pickle means (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup..
Common synonyms include ass in a sling, bind, bucket of syrup, calvary.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
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