Picnic

Quick meaning: Picnic is a noun meaning An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.

Meaning

An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.

More Meanings

1. The meal eaten at such a gathering.
2. (figurative) An easy or pleasant task.
3. A cut of pork from the shoulder area (above the front leg) of a pig.
4. (intransitive) To take part in a picnic.
5. (obsolete) An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.

Example Sentences

We went out for a picnic in the forest.

We remind the guests that dealing with this problem is no picnic, and to be patient.

And I'll never forget the chillingly instinctive racism. "Sure is pretty countryside. Pity it's spoiled by the niggers picknickin."

Smoked picnics (calas) are pork shoulders with the butt portion removed just beyond the knuckle bone. Shoulder butts are boneless […]

Word Forms

• picnics
• picknick
• picnicking
• picnicked

Synonyms for picnic

Depending on context, synonyms include snap, cinch, outing, walkover, pushover.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cinch, snap, outing, walkover, pushover, lunch.

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