crook vs sick

crook

adj
  • Annoyed, angry; upset. 

  • Ill, sick. 

  • Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard. 

noun
  • A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 

  • A pothook. 

  • A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything). 

  • A bishop's standard staff of office. 

  • A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure. 

  • An artifice; a trick; a contrivance. 

  • A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal. 

  • A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds. 

  • A bending of the knee; a genuflection. 

verb
  • To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. 

  • To become bent or hooked. 

  • To bend, or form into a hook. 

sick

adj
  • Tired of or annoyed by something. 

  • Having an urge to vomit. 

  • In poor condition. 

  • In bad taste. 

  • Very good, excellent, awesome, badass. 

  • Mentally unstable, disturbed. 

  • Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified. 

  • In poor health; ill. 

verb
  • To fall sick; to sicken. 

  • To vomit. 

noun
  • (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated. 

  • Vomit. 

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