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sicking up

sicking up is the present participle and gerund of sick up.

Meaning of sick up

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

Questions about sicking up

What is sicking up the present participle and gerund of?
Sicking up is the present participle and gerund of sick up.

Words near sicking up in the dictionary

  1. sickhouse
  2. sickhouses
  3. sickie
  4. sickies
  5. sicking
  6. sicking up
  7. Sickinger
  8. Sickingers
  9. sickish
  10. sickishly
  11. sickishness

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