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sicks up

sicks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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What is sicks up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sicks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sick up.

Words near sicks up in the dictionary

  1. sickout
  2. sickouts
  3. sickroom
  4. sickrooms
  5. sicks
  6. sicks up
  7. sickular
  8. sickularism
  9. sickulars
  10. sicky
  11. siclatoun

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