1
: preserved in or cured with pickle
pickled herring
2
informal
: drunk sense 1a
… once got pickled on two glasses of punch at an office party …—
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Examples of pickled in a Sentence
He got pickled at the office party.
I must have been rather pickled when I agreed to your stupid scheme.
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Muddle the pickled fruit into drinks.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Apr. 2026
The menu has a Scandi feel, with a trolley of open sandwiches served at lunchtime and a la carte dishes including gravadlax with pickled cucumber salad, Swedish west coast salad with prawns, mussels and crab, and lemon and blueberry custard tart.
—Siobhan Grogan, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2026
Rhoda makes her version of Singaporean chili crab, cooking the crabs in the broth and also adding some pickled crab meat.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
The menu options include beef ravioli, salmon, butternut squash, tuna noodle casserole, tomatoes, artichokes, broccoli, kale, pickled beets, cherry and blueberry cobbler or a chocolate and peanut butter bar.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
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Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Apr. 2026
The menu has a Scandi feel, with a trolley of open sandwiches served at lunchtime and a la carte dishes including gravadlax with pickled cucumber salad, Swedish west coast salad with prawns, mussels and crab, and lemon and blueberry custard tart.
—Siobhan Grogan, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2026
Rhoda makes her version of Singaporean chili crab, cooking the crabs in the broth and also adding some pickled crab meat.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
The menu options include beef ravioli, salmon, butternut squash, tuna noodle casserole, tomatoes, artichokes, broccoli, kale, pickled beets, cherry and blueberry cobbler or a chocolate and peanut butter bar.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
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“Pickled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pickled. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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