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spicy cough

spicy cough noun: COVID-19.

Noun

spicy cough

  1. (informal, preceded by definite article) COVID-19.
    • If I've survived the past two years to get killed off by a spicy cough I'll not be best pleased.2020 March 4, Sean (@MrSeanysean123), twitter, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2020
    • A court deciding one of the largest divorce settlements in history has awarded Melinda Gates custody of 50% of the people who have taken the spicy cough jab.2021 June 19, dech...@hotmail.com, “Re: Donald Trump's graceless departure revealed his true colours”, in aus.politics (Usenet)

Origin of spicy cough

spicy (meaning danger) + cough. First used in current sense c. March 2020.

Questions about spicy cough

What does spicy cough mean?
Spicy cough means COVID-19.
What part of speech is spicy cough?
Spicy cough is a noun.

Words near spicy cough in the dictionary

  1. spiculum
  2. spiculum amoris
  3. Spicuzza
  4. Spicuzzas
  5. spicy
  6. spicy cough
  7. spicy pillow
  8. spicy pillows
  9. spicy tooth
  10. spicy white
  11. spicy-hot

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