sick
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (less common in the UK and Ireland) In poor health; ill.Examples: "She was sick all day with the flu."; "We have to care for the sick."; "Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra."Synonyms: ill, not well, poorly, sickly, unwell, diseased, disease-ridden, infectAntonyms: fit, healthy, welluncommon
2. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.Examples: "You sick bastard!"; "What a sick, sick feeling / To let you go, my dear"Synonyms: disturbed, twisted, warpedcolloquial
3. (colloquial) In bad taste.Examples: "That’s a sick joke."colloquial
4. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.Examples: "This tune is sick."; "He showed off his sick surfing skills."; "Dude, this car's got a sick subwoofer!"Synonyms: rad, wicked, ace, admirable, awe-inspiring, awesome, bang on, bang-upAntonyms: crap, naff, uncoolslang
5. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
noun (English)
1. (British, Australia, colloquial) Vomit.Examples: "[…] they're spitting and belching chunks of lentilly gunk. Looks like sick."; "The bogan, true to form, laps it up like a dog does its own sick."Synonyms: vomitAustraliaBritishcolloquialuncountable
2. (British, colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.Britishcolloquialuncountable
verb (English)
1. (British, Australia, colloquial) To vomit.Examples: "I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor."AustraliaBritishcolloquial
2. (obsolete except in dialect, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.Examples: "Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died."; "Old man to pickney, so wave unno hand if you with me /To see the sufferation sick me."intransitive
verb (English)
1. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”).Examples: ""Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!""; "When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles."; "1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 154, "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.""alt-ofalternativerare
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