sicknik
nounEtymology From sick + -nik.
1
Historical, Slang Any of a group of American comedians, first popular in the 1950s, who employed cynicism, satire, and observational comedy rather than inoffensive traditional jokes.
- 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.1959 July 13, “The Sickniks”, in Time, →ISSN: