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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Bad, often connoting abuse or neglect.
  • hip-hop slang Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as '''ill''', ''comparative'' '''iller''', ''superlative'' '''illest'''.]
  • Having an urge to vomit.
  • slang Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with ''to be''.
  • Suffering from a disease.

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Adverb:

  • Badly; very incompletely. Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.
  • Scarcely.

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Noun:

  • A physical ailment; an illness.
  • often Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
  • Evil; moral wrongfulness.
  • Harm or injury.
  • Unfavorable remarks or opinions.
  • slang PCP.

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