Word family noun sick the sick sickness sicko adjective sick sickening sickly verb sicken adverb sickeningly sickly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsickosick‧o /ˈsɪkəʊ $ -koʊ/ noun (plural sickos) [countable] informal STRANGEsomeone who gets pleasure from things that most people find unpleasant or upsetting What kind of sicko would write something like that?Examples from the Corpus
sicko• But the way Bridges plays him he'd be the first sicko picked out of an identity parade. 