sick-ass

English

Alternative forms

• sickass, sick ass

Etymology

From sick +‎ -ass.

Adjective

sick-ass (comparative more sick-ass, superlative most sick-ass)

1. Mentally disturbed or unsound; malevolently crazy.
   • 2007, L. A. Banks, The Wicked, →ISBN:

     It's not all right for you to cover for your sick-ass, twisted son, just because he's yours and let him tear apart a woman and her family.

   • 2010, Alexander DeMarcus, The Whipping Man, →ISBN:

     And I definitely didn't find anything that pointed towards her having any sort of an affiliation with a sick-ass killer.

   • 2015, Ashley Lewis, Victim of Abuse, →ISBN:

     I was getting bigger for having this kid and basically homeless, and my mother hated me because her sick-ass husband thought he was in control of me.

   • 2016, John Vitale, Last Man Standing, →ISBN:

     You really are one sick-ass, crazy motherfucker.

2. Impressive.
   • 2004, Tim McLoughlin, Brooklyn Noir, →ISBN:

     That caught the ear of Dr. Rhyme, one of hip hop's most influential producers, the genius behind Da Sick Niggaz Convention Rhyme put his trackers out to find that “crazy motherfuckah with the sick-ass lyrics and slick production.”

   • 2011, H.L. Rogers, Peter Littleton, The Rogers & Littleton Guide to America's Douchiest Colleges, →ISBN, page 46:

     Living at home, not because you can't afford housing, but because your parents have a sick-ass spread right on Biscayne Bay, just across the street from Alex Rodriguez, and they promised you the pool house, as long as you don't mess with the $60,000 filtration system;

   • 2015, Ezra E. Fitz, The Morning Side of the Hill: A Novella, →ISBN:

     There's a sick-ass poetry slam every month. Real good stuff.