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sics

sics is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sic.

Meaning of sic

Verb (1)

sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

  1. To mark with a bracketed sic.
    • The fact is, of course, that the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates, but he must find something to say and above all make a slow of purism.1887 May 7, E. Belfort Bax, “On Some Forms of Modern Cant”, in Commonweal

Verb (2)

sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

  1. (transitive) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
    • He sicced his dog on me!
  2. (transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack.
    • Sic ’em, Mitzi.

See all 5 meanings of sic

Noun capitalized: SICs

SICs

  1. (plural) plural of SIC

Questions about sics

What is sics the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sics is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sic.
What part of speech is sics?
Sics is a noun.

Words near sics in the dictionary

  1. sicles
  2. Sico
  3. SICP
  4. Sicque
  5. Sicques
  6. sics
  7. sicsac
  8. sicsacs
  9. Sicsican
  10. SICU
  11. sicula

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sics (page history and authors); SICs (page history and authors); sic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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