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sickie

 noun
     
sick‧ie [countable]
1B British English informal a day when you say that you are sick and do not go to work, even though you are not really sick:
Looks like he's thrown another sickie (=pretended to be sick and not gone to work).
2 American English informal a sicko - used humorously
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