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How to pronounce “picket”

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Pronunciation guide for picket

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of picket with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I leftwhen I joined my family on the picket line for the first time.
Definition summary: A stake driven into the ground.

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I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left

when I joined my family on the picket line for the first time.

[Noun]
A stake driven into the ground.
(historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
(military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
(sometimes figurative) A sentry.
A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
(card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
[Verb]
(intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
(transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
(transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
(transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
(obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.