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pickle
noun- a predicament; a sorry plight; an unpleasant difficulty UK, 1562
- What a pickle! — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 77, 1971
- She found herself in the pickle she’d been in a thousand times when she’d been a kid. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 129, 1988
- She got herself in a right pickle. So what’s she going to do? — Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, The Royle Family, 1999
- a torpedo US
- — American Speech, p. 38, February 1948: “Talking underwater: speech in submarines”
- a handgun US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 156, 1950
- in horse racing, a regular but uninformed bettor AUSTRALIA
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 62, 1989
- in lobstering, the brine that accumulates in a bait box produced by decomposing bait fish and the salt used to preserve the bait fish US
- — Kendall Merriam, The Illustrated Dictionary of Lobstering, p. 8, 1978
▶ off your pickle
drunk UK- — e-cyclopaedia, 20 March 2002
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