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get sick (third-person singular simple present gets sick, present participle getting sick, simple past got sick, past participle (UK) got sick or (US) gotten sick)
- (Canada, US) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, sick.
- Synonyms: fall ill, take sick
- (euphemistic) To vomit.
2004, Bridget Bufford, Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey, →ISBN, page 161:"I didn't ever do that, but when I first started drinking I got sick all over this guy I was seeing," I say.
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