Usually means: Unpleasantly sticky, slimy, or dirty.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. icky: Merriam-Webster
  2. icky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. icky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. icky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. icky: Vocabulary.com
  6. Icky, icky: Wordnik
  7. icky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. icky: Wiktionary
  9. icky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. icky: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. icky: Dictionary.com
  12. icky: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. icky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. icky: Rhymezone
  15. icky: FreeDictionary.org
  16. icky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. icky: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. icky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. icky: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ICKY: Acronym Finder

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. icky, icky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. icky: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. icky: ESL Slang page
  4. icky: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ickier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal) Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.
adjective:  (informal) Excessively sentimental.
adjective:  (informal) Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health.

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