sicknik
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English
Etymology
Noun
sicknik (plural sickniks)
- (slang, historical) Any of a group of American comedians, first popular in the 1950s, who employed cynicism, satire, and observational comedy rather than inoffensive traditional jokes.
- 1959 July 13, “The Sickniks”, in Time, →ISSN:
- What the sickniks dispense is partly social criticism liberally laced with cyanide, partly a Charles Addams kind of jolly ghoulishness, and partly a personal and highly disturbing hostility toward all the world.