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sick up

sick up verb: to vomit.

Verb

sick up (third-person singular simple present sicks up, present participle sicking up, simple past and past participle sicked up)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To vomit.
    • I had like pains all over and felt I could sick up and at the same time not sick up, and I began to feel like in distress, O my brothers, being fixed rigid too on this chair.1962, Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1963, →ISBN, page 102
    • "... Anyway, this chick was drinking shots with Dave and Eric and this other chick, and she started getting sick. Eric was like 'Don't let 'er sick up in 'ere,” and next thing anybody knew, she sticks her head out the window and blew lunch all over.”2011, Cameron Bortz, Bermuda High, page 113

Forms of sick up

third-person singular presentsicks up
present participlesicking up
past participlesicked up
pastsicked up

Questions about sick up

What does sick up mean?
Sick up means to vomit.
What part of speech is sick up?
Sick up is a verb.
What is the past tense of sick up?
The past tense of sick up is sicked up.

Words near sick up in the dictionary

  1. sick sacks
  2. sick sinus syndrome
  3. sick to one's stomach
  4. sick to the back teeth
  5. sick unto death
  6. sick up
  7. sick-abed
  8. sick-abeds
  9. sick-ass
  10. sick-o
  11. sick-os

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