exclamation, informal: used to express a feeling of shock or dislike with the implication that it makes you feel sick.
The word can also be used as a noun, as "the ick" has been made famous in the TV reality show Love Island (I never watch it!) as "a sudden feeling that you dislike someone or something or are no longer attracted to someone because of something they do". For example, "what he did gave me the ick".
It's amazing what words make it to the dictionary. This word made it in this very year, One of the joys of the English language, which is a living language, constantly evolving...
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