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dill pickle

American  

noun

  • dill pickles
    plural
  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

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Origin of dill pickle

First recorded in 1900–05

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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

Then I remembered a Green Goddess recipe I’d made years ago that called for a generous splash of dill pickle brine.

From Salon Jul. 7, 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 added hard-boiled eggs and apples and dill pickle slices.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

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