pickle

pickle
n
1. cucumber pickle, cornichon, gherkin, dill pickle, dill, sweet pickle, sour pickle, bread-and-butter pickle, pickled watermelon rind; relish, piccalilli, chili, chili sauce, chowchow, chutney.
2. brine, steep, marinade, sauce, soy sauce, vinegar.
3.Informal. predicament, Inf. jam, Inf. fix, scrape, Sl. bind; tight or tough spot, Inf. box, corner, cul-de-sac, hole; mess, pretty kettle of fish, fine how-do-you-do, Sl. screw-up, pretty pass; dilemma, quandary, Archaic. hobble, straits, pinch; crisis, exigency, emergency; problem, trouble, plight, distress, difficulty.
4. in a pickle
between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, up the creek, on the horns of a dilemma, all at sea, up against the wall, with one's back to the wall, in the middle, up to one's armpits or neck.
v
5. marinade, steep, brine, corn; devil, curry, spice; preserve, conserve, can, put up; curé, kipper.

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