Definitions for picnic

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Spelling: [pik-nik]

IPA: /ˈpɪk nɪk/

Picnic is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in picnic (cciinp).

Definitions for picnic

noun

1. an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
2. the food eaten on such an excursion.
3. Also called picnic ham, picnic shoulder. a section of pork shoulder, usually boned, smoked, and weighing 4–6 pounds. Compare daisy (def 2).
4. Informal. an enjoyable experience or time, easy task, etc.:

verb (used without object)

1. to go on or take part in a picnic.

Origin of picnic

1740-50; German Pic-nic (now Picknick) French pique-nique, rhyming compound

Examples for picnic

Here, in the back of the café, there was a picnic style table.

The team behind Indochine and Acme is also opening Tijuana picnic in the LES sometime this month.

Would a Sunday-school picnic constitute a bribe worth mentioning?

Sometimes, when the sun is warm and the wind is relatively calm, we set a blanket down for a picnic.

You tell the boys that if I find this street scrawled over any more, the picnic's off.

“The idea is to get out in the open air, have a picnic,” Wrigley said.

She never missed a picnic to Annandale, the Waterfalls, or Mashobra.

An 1882 travel guide calls it “a good place for oarsmen and campers to picnic,” with a hotel called the White Cross.

I brought her out here for a trolley ride and a picnic luncheon.

Two dollars for a scholars' picnic in a place where no child is supposed to have money.