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Adjective: pickled  pi-kuld
  1. (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid
     
  2. Very drunk
    "This soused or pickled style is similar to the Pescado en Escabeche of the Yucatán";
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, bombed, steaming, tanked up, trashed, hammered, wasted, stonkered [Austral, NZ], juiced [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, mullered [Brit], lit, swacked [N. Amer], out of it [Brit], blitzed, trolleyed [Brit], bladdered [Brit], paralytic [Brit], stewed, liquored up [N. Amer], legless [Brit], stinko, fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]
Verb: pickle  pi-kul
  1. (cooking) preserve in a pickling liquid

See also: drunk, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, preserved

Type of: keep, preserve

Encyclopedia: Pickled

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