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sicko [sik-oh] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural sick·os. Slang.
Origin of sicko sick1 + -o Examples from the Web for sicko Contemporary Examples of sicko
Health Care America showed up online in 2007 (the year Sicko was released) and disappeared quickly by early 2008.
Corporate America Is Pushing Us Off a Cliff
Michael Moore
November 19, 2010
In the 1980s, he was the guy Rolling Stone asked to reveal Times Square’s sicko soul.
The Daily Beast
October 9, 2010
He directed and produced Roger Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko.
Michael Moore
October 9, 2009
Couldn’t some sicko turn his steering wheel and wipe out her life?
The Mystery of Melissa Huckaby
Demian Bulwa
April 15, 2009
Here’s a group of Democratic congresspeople endorsing my film “Sicko” in the chambers of the House Judiciary Committee in 2007.
Why I’m Not Now and Have Never Been the Democrats’ “Rush Limbaugh”
Michael Moore
March 6, 2009
British Dictionary definitions for sicko sicko noun plural sickos
- a person who is mentally disturbed or perverted
adjective
- perverted or in bad tastesicko prurience
Word Origin for sicko C20: from sick 1 (sense 5) + -o Word Origin and History for sicko n.
1977, from sick (adj.) in the mental sense + ending as in weirdo. Sickie “a pervert” is attested from 1972, and cf. sicknik (1959) “pervert, obscene comedian” (applied to Lenny Bruce), with fad ending -nik.