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dill pickle

American  

noun

  1. a cucumber pickle flavored with dill.


dill pickle British  

noun

  1. a pickled cucumber flavoured with dill

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of dill pickle

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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Prepare the Salad: In a large bowl, combine the shredded rotisserie chicken, chopped green onion, and dill pickle.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2025

Q: When I spent a winter in Arizona, I learned from an older woman to eat a dill pickle every day.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023

Then you remember last Wednesday when you let your kindergartner have a dill pickle for breakfast because it was 8:35 a.m. and Why doesn’t anyone have shoes on?!

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023

The popularity of the dill pickle – which many in the U.S. consider "the" preeminent pickled fruit or vegetable – is attributed to two sources.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2022

She drew and colored a picture of five guys with Afros and glued that over the dill pickle label.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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