picnic

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  1. noun A meal eaten outdoors, as on an excursion.
  2. noun Slang An easy task or a pleasant experience.
  3. noun A smoked section of pork foreleg and shoulder.
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  • Well, a picnic might be the ideal setting for that kiss he planned to steal sometime within the next couple of months. —  Mary Balogh - An Unacceptable Offer
  • Those attending the picnic are asked to park at the Glen-Gery Brick Factory on Hamilton Road and take a shuttle to the site. —  Home News Tribune - News
  • Last year, at the same location, the picnic was a "roaring success," drawing some 2,500 people, Venable says. —  Memphis Flyer
  • Going on a picnic is a nice way to spend a few hours. —  All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content
  • Whether you are looking to host a large picnic, which may also be referred to as a picnic party, or if you are looking to host a picnic just for your immediate family, you may be wondering which type of foods you should serve. —  xml's Blinklist.com
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  1. French pique-nique, probably reduplication of piquer, to pick; see pique.

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  1. Formerly and more properly picknick (French picnic, piquenique (before 1740) = German picknick = Swedish picknick (1788) = Danish pikkenik, a picnic); a riming name of popular origin, apparently from pick, v., + nick, for *knick or knack in knickknack, nicknack, a trifle, but also a picnic. As in many other riming names, the elements are used without precision, but the literally sense is apparently ‘a picking or nibbling of bits,’ a snatch, snack (cf. snatch, snack, in this sense, as related to snatch, v.).
  2. from picnic, n.
 

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