pickled

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of pickle

adj

  1. Preserved by pickling.
    But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either. 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
  2. (slang) Drunk.

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