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sickniks

sickniks is the plural of sicknik.

Meaning of sicknik

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

Questions about sickniks

What is sickniks the plural of?
Sickniks is the plural of sicknik.

Words near sickniks in the dictionary

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

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