1
: preserved in or cured with pickle
pickled herring
2
: drunk sense 1a
gets thoroughly pickled before dinner—
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He got pickled at the office party.
I must have been rather pickled when I agreed to your stupid scheme.
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Plates champion some of the best local and seasonal ingredients for shareable dishes like white asparagus with pickled strawberries and goat cheese or bluefin tuna with garden peas and grilled padron peppers with pil pil sauce.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2025
There were also triangles of golden tomatoes and speckles of pickled red onion throughout.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025
Slide them onto a rice bowl alongside pickled veggies.
—Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 June 2025
This refreshing combo calls for cubes of melon and the pickled rind.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 6 June 2025
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Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2025
There were also triangles of golden tomatoes and speckles of pickled red onion throughout.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025
Slide them onto a rice bowl alongside pickled veggies.
—Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 June 2025
This refreshing combo calls for cubes of melon and the pickled rind.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 6 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for pickled
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“Pickled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pickled. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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