Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The hospital and dispensary of a ship.
  • noun A place where the sick or injured are treated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A place used as a hospital on board a ship, on a spaceship (in science fiction).
  • noun A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured at a school, boarding school.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship)

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Examples

  • Fek, why when in sickbay would you not also grab a handful of that Surgical Lube that I stole from my wife’s Gynocologists office?

    PROBABLY THE WORST THING EVER 2008

  • The room known as the sickbay was similarly situated.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

  • The room known as the sickbay was similarly situated.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

  • I need to go down to what is laughingly called sickbay.

    The Search Diane Carey 2000

  • The relief workers had found over a hundred people who had been injured when the Cardassians blew up their base; sensor scans said that they had found every single survivor, and the word from sickbay was that the workers had saved at least a score of Megarans from otherwise certain death.

    DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000

  • I need to go down to what is laughingly called sickbay.

    The Search Diane Carey 2000

  • I need to go down to what is laughingly called sickbay.

    The Search Diane Carey 2000

  • There is this brand new invention called 'sickbay.'

    Dark Allies Peter David 1999

  • He found a bulkhead intercom and called sickbay, using the prearranged code just in case anyone else was listening.

    BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995

  • He found a bulkhead intercom and called sickbay, using the prearranged code just in case anyone else was listening.

    BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995

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