get sick

English

Verb

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)

  1. (Canada, US) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get,‎ sick.
    Synonyms: fall ill, take 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.

Translations
become sick — see fall ill
vomit — see vomit
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