Indicates that the speaker has an illness.

(slang, drugs) Sick due to withdrawal from opiates; in withdrawal.

plural of sick man

(US, military) A daily lineup of military personnel requiring medical attention.

plural of sick call

(idiomatic, informal) A list of people who are ill

(informal, transitive, intransitive) To vomit.

(UK) A note from a doctor certifying the patient is ill, and therefore unable to go to work, school etc. / (UK, idiomatic) Someone who dodges work because of (feigned) illness.

(simile) extremely sick; very ill. / (idiomatic, UK) Very disappointed; miserable.

An unidentified, highly virulent disease with aches and sweating, the cause of a series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1485 and 1551.