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Sick call   /sɪk kɔl/   Listen
Sick call

noun
1.
The daily military formation at which individuals report to the medical officer as sick.  Synonym: sick parade.






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"Sick call" Quotes from Famous Books



... that anyone should know his cousin Walt and not be eager to talk about him. He did not approach the subject again till he and Knudsen and I and Corder were together in the tent. Then he put it right up to me. "Weren't you my cousin's best man?" "I was," said I, and Sick Call having just blown, I went out, saying that I wanted to see who answered it. I know Knudsen and Corder looked at me hard; as for David, he cried out, "Oh, I beg your pardon!" I have reasoned out that with his delicate social perceptions and the stock of gossip that ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French

... The daily sick call of the battery was exceptionally large at Benoite Vaux. Colds and cooties played havoc with the boys for ...
— The Delta of the Triple Elevens - The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, - American Expeditionary Forces • William Elmer Bachman



Words linked to "Sick call" :   military machine, military formation, war machine, military, armed services, armed forces



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