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icks

icks is the plural of ick.

Meaning of ick

Noun

ick (countable and uncountable, plural icks)

  1. (informal, uncountable) Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.
    • Like it wasn't bad enough that I was soaked to the bone, now I had to lug an ick covered designer original across a puddle filled runway.2011, J. Morgan, Southern Werewolf Chronicles Book Two: Were the Moon Don't Shine
  2. (informal) A feeling of revulsion.
    • to have the ick
  3. (slang) Anything moaned about; a gripe.
    • How can you stand such an ick ?1963, Thomas A. Erhard, The Electronovac Gasser: A Farce in Three Acts, page 45

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Questions about icks

What is icks the plural of?
Icks is the plural of ick.

Words near icks in the dictionary

  1. ickler
  2. ickles
  3. Icklesham
  4. icklest
  5. Ickleton
  6. icks
  7. icktastic
  8. Ickwell
  9. Ickwell Green
  10. Ickx
  11. icky

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