Definition of "sicko"
sicko
noun
plural sickos or sickoes
(derogatory, slang) A person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits.
Quotations
We can′t say that it is our responses of horror and revulsion that are upsetting to the youth; therefore, those attracted to them are deviants, sickos, who should be cured/punished like the homosexuals of the forties and fifties.
1997, Shannon Bell, Chapter 5: On ne peut pas voir l′image [The image cannot be seen], Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki L. Ross, Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision, page 231
The conservative Boston Herald, which had earlier described the revelations about Barney′s two-year relationship with a male prostitute as “one of the most tawdry episodes in modern Massachusetts politics” and had run a story by the columnist Howie Carr calling Frank “a sicko who happens to be a pol,” urged him to resign his house seat.
2009, Stuart E. Weisberg, Barney Frank: The Story of America′s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman, page 372
(US, Canada, slang) A mentally ill person.
Quotations
Every so often, I find myself with the urge to make sure people know that I am not just on Prozac but on lithium too, that I am a real sicko, a depressive of a much higher order than all these happy-pill poppers with their low-level sorrow.
2014, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, page 317
Quotations
You are worried about getting sick yourself, but the etiquette of asking someone to go home or to stay in bed is tricky to navigate. Some of your colleagues are ready to march the snot-nosed sicko out the door, but you wonder just how much of a problem it really is to breathe the same air.
2011, Aaron E. Carroll, Rachel C. Vreeman, Don't Cross Your Eyes...They'll Get Stuck That Way!
adjective
comparative more sicko, superlative most sicko
Characterized by depraved tastes or habits; deviant.
Quotations
“Your kid isn't nuts.” “Ever had one of his broccoli-and-asparagus omelets? Kid eats another vegetable, I'm going to ram a carrot down his throat until he gags.” “Most parents would kill for a kid like yours. Come on, admit it. This kid was sicko.”
1996, Mark Richard Zubro, Another Dead Teenager: A Paul Turner Mystery, St. Martin's Griffin