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sick-ass

sick-ass adjective: mentally disturbed or unsound; malevolently crazy.

Adjective

sick-ass (comparative more sick-ass, superlative most sick-ass)

  1. Mentally disturbed or unsound; malevolently crazy.
    • It's not all right for you to cover for your sick-ass, twisted son, just because he's yours and let him tear apart a woman and her family.2007, L. A. Banks, The Wicked, →ISBN
    • And I definitely didn't find anything that pointed towards her having any sort of an affiliation with a sick-ass killer.2010, Alexander DeMarcus, The Whipping Man, →ISBN
  2. Impressive.
    • That caught the ear of Dr. Rhyme, one of hip hop's most influential producers, the genius behind Da Sick Niggaz Convention Rhyme put his trackers out to find that “crazy motherfuckah with the sick-ass lyrics and slick production.”2004, Tim McLoughlin, Brooklyn Noir, →ISBN
    • Living at home, not because you can't afford housing, but because your parents have a sick-ass spread right on Biscayne Bay, just across the street from Alex Rodriguez, and they promised you the pool house, as long as you don't mess with the $60,000 filtration system;2011, H.L. Rogers, Peter Littleton, The Rogers & Littleton Guide to America's Douchiest Colleges, →ISBN, page 46

Examples of sick-ass in a sentence

  • I was getting bigger for having this kid and basically homeless, and my mother hated me because her sick-ass husband thought he was in control of me.2015, Ashley Lewis, Victim of Abuse, →ISBN:
  • You really are one sick-ass, crazy motherfucker.2016, John Vitale, Last Man Standing, →ISBN:
  • There's a sick-ass poetry slam every month.2015, Ezra E. Fitz, The Morning Side of the Hill: A Novella, →ISBN:

Forms of sick-ass

comparativemore sick-ass
superlativemost sick-ass
alternative formsickass
alternative formsick ass

Origin of sick-ass

From sick + -ass.

Questions about sick-ass

What does sick-ass mean?
Sick-ass means mentally disturbed or unsound; malevolently crazy.
How do you use sick-ass in a sentence?
I was getting bigger for having this kid and basically homeless, and my mother hated me because her sick-ass husband thought he was in control of me.
What part of speech is sick-ass?
Sick-ass is an adjective.

Words near sick-ass in the dictionary

  1. sick to the back teeth
  2. sick unto death
  3. sick up
  4. sick-abed
  5. sick-abeds
  6. sick-ass
  7. sick-o
  8. sick-os
  9. sick-out
  10. sick-outs
  11. sick-wagon

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