Synonyms

dill pickle

American

noun

a cucumber pickle flavored with dill.

dill pickle British

noun

a pickled cucumber flavoured with dill

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Noun Inflected Forms

dill pickles

plural

Etymology

Origin of dill pickle

First recorded in 1900–05

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dill pickle

One trend centered on the “chamoy pickle”—a hollowed-out jumbo dill pickle typically filled with spicy chips or sour candy, coated with the Mexican condiment chamoy and wrapped in a Fruit Roll-Up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

And a splash of hot dill pickle juice.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026

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

I wanted to get my favorite things, a peppermint stick and a dill pickle.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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