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pickled

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • Australia

Preserved by pickling.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of picklesimple past and past participle of pickle

adjective

  1. 1

    Preserved by pickling.

    But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

  2. 2

    slangDrunk.

Forms

comparative
more pickled
superlative
most pickled
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).