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pickled

1. simple past and past participle of pickle

pickled (comparative more pickled, superlative most pickled)

1. Preserved by pickling.
   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     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.

2. (slang) Drunk.

• (preserved):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk