get sick

English

Verb

get sick (third-person singular simple present gets sick, present participle getting sick, simple past got sick, past participle gotten sick)

  1. (Canada, US, literally) To become sick.
  2. (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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