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picnic

verb [I]
 
 
/ˈpɪk.nɪk/ (present tense picnicking, past tense and past participle picnicked)

Definition

to have a picnic somewhere: There were several families picnicking on the river bank.EatingBiting, chewing and swallowing picnicker
 
 
/-nɪ.kər/ US  /-nɪ.kɚ/ noun [C]
Meals and parts of meals
(Definition of picnic verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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