sick parade

1. 1.

   the daily military formation at which individuals report to the medical officer as sick

   Synonymssick call

   Broadermilitary formation

   military

Questions about sick parade

What does sick parade mean?

sick parade means "the daily military formation at which individuals report to the medical officer as sick".

What is another word for sick parade?

Close synonyms include sick call. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sick parade a common word?

sick parade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.