sicko
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sicko
- /ˈsɪkəʊ/ UK
- /ˈsɪkoʊ/ US
Rhymes with -ɪkəʊ
noun sickos · sickoes
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A person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits.
1986 June 9, David Denby, Movies: Poison, New York, page 130,
But in fact, the murders have been committed by an army of sickos, a phalanx of wild-eyed droolers led by a monster goon with a concrete jaw and a Neanderthal brow.
Similar: weirdo
- A mentally ill person. So come on, doc, precisely which kind of sicko is America? You might plump for depressed (isolationist), psychopathic (lack of empathy) or even psychotic (barking mad - what P.G. Wodehouse referred to as "thinking you're a poached egg").
- A physically ill person. The amazing Mr. Sick Day [Milo Filbum] has missed an amazing 73% of 1,020 work days for such ailments as a toothache, [...] "I finally gave the sicko his walking papers when other people started doing the same thing — calling in sick and all," the manager [said] ...
adjective more sicko · most sicko
- Characterized by depraved tastes or habits; deviant. “Your kid isn't nuts.” “Ever had one of his broccoli-and-asparagus omelets? Kid eats another vegetable, I'm going to ram a carrot down his throat until he gags.” “Most parents would kill for a kid like yours. Come on, admit it. This kid was sicko.”
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Talk about this word "sicko." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sicko. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sicko. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sicko "sicko." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sicko.
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@misc{sicko_2026,
title = {sicko},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sicko},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
