sick parade

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sick parade (plural sick parades)

  1. (military, medicine) A lineup of ill or injured soldiers who report to a medic, and are assessed by a triage system.
    • 2020, Chris Cocks, Fire Force: A Trooper's War in the Rhodesian Light Infantry, page 148:
      He would report for sick parade every morning and more often than not convince the doctor he was ill. In consequence, he was on light duties for the entire twenty-eight days I was there.