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sicknik

sicknik noun: any of a group of American comedians, first popular in the 1950s, who employed cynicism, satire, and observational comedy rather than inoffensive traditional jokes.

Noun

sicknik (plural sickniks)

  1. (historical, slang) Any of a group of American comedians, first popular in the 1950s, who employed cynicism, satire, and observational comedy rather than inoffensive traditional jokes.
    • What the sickniks dispense is partly social criticism liberally laced with cyanide, partly a Charles Addams kind of jolly ghoulishness, and partly a personal and highly disturbing hostility toward all the world.1959 July 13, “The Sickniks”, in Time, →ISSN

Forms of sicknik

pluralsickniks

Origin of sicknik

From sick + -nik.

Questions about sicknik

What does sicknik mean?
Sicknik means any of a group of American comedians, first popular in the 1950s, who employed cynicism, satire, and observational comedy rather than inoffensive traditional jokes.
What part of speech is sicknik?
Sicknik is a noun.
What is the plural of sicknik?
The plural of sicknik is sickniks.

Words near sicknik in the dictionary

  1. sickness unto death
  2. sicknesse
  3. sicknesses
  4. sicknesses unto death
  5. Sicknick
  6. sicknik
  7. sickniks
  8. sicknote
  9. sicknotes
  10. sicknurse
  11. sicknursed

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