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tickle someone's pickle

tickle someone's pickle verb: to amuse or astonish someone.

Verb

tickle someone's pickle (third-person singular simple present tickles someone's pickle, present participle tickling someone's pickle, simple past and past participle tickled someone's pickle)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To amuse or astonish someone.
    • Well, tickle my pickle and call me Uncle.1992, Chandler Brossard, As the Wolf Howls at My Door, page 269
    • If you have any hilarious dating stories, though, please do share them with me on social media, they always tickle my pickle!2015, Louise Pentland, Life with a Sprinkle of Glitter, →ISBN
  2. (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To stimulate someone's penis sexually.
    • Cole slowly put his face into the man's clothes, his own sweat plastering his hair over his brow, a few pubic hairs brushing against his nose. "That's the way, fairy, tickle my pickle."1972, Joseph Anthony McCaffrey, The homosexual dialectic, page 200
    • Come on Daisy, don't hold out on me. If you won't tickle my pickle, someone has to.2014, Cat Mason, Facing Me

Forms of tickle someone's pickle

third-person singular presenttickles someone's pickle
present participletickling someone's pickle
past participletickled someone's pickle
pasttickled someone's pickle

Questions about tickle someone's pickle

What does tickle someone's pickle mean?
Tickle someone's pickle means to amuse or astonish someone.
What part of speech is tickle someone's pickle?
Tickle someone's pickle is a verb.
What is the past tense of tickle someone's pickle?
The past tense of tickle someone's pickle is tickled someone's pickle.

Words near tickle someone's pickle in the dictionary

  1. tickings-off
  2. tickle
  3. tickle pink
  4. tickle someone's fancy
  5. tickle someone's funny bone
  6. tickle someone's pickle
  7. tickle the dragon's tail
  8. tickle the ear
  9. tickle the ivories
  10. tickle the ivory
  11. tickle the sausage

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