sicknik

English

Etymology

sick +‎ -nik

Noun

sicknik (plural sickniks)

1. (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^[1], →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.

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