sick up

verb

To vomit.

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Meanings

verbsick up (third-person singular simple present sicks up, present participle sicking up, simple past and past participle sicked up)

present singular third person sicks up · participle present sicking up · participle past sicked up · past sicked up

  1. ambitransitiveinformalTo vomit.

    I had like pains all over and felt I could sick up and at the same time not sick up, and I began to feel like in distress, O my brothers, being fixed rigid too on this chair.

    1962, Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1963, →ISBN, page 102
    1 more example

    "... Anyway, this chick was drinking shots with Dave and Eric and this other chick, and she started getting sick. Eric was like 'Don't let 'er sick up in 'ere,” and next thing anybody knew, she sticks her head out the window and blew lunch all over.”

    2011, Cameron Bortz, Bermuda High, page 113

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
regurgitate
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sick up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sick%20up.

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