sick puppy

noun

A person who is sick (mentally disturbed) in a morbid or gruesome way.

Meanings

nounsick puppy (plural sick puppies)

plural sick puppies

  1. idiomaticinformalA person who is sick (mentally disturbed) in a morbid or gruesome way.

    If these reports are true, this God is one sick puppy, and dangerous. He solves all his ultimate impasses with ultimate violence.

    2007, J. Harold Ellens, Radical Grace
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