sick puppy

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Noun

sick puppy (plural sick puppies)

1. (informal, idiomatic) A person who is sick (mentally disturbed) in a morbid or gruesome way.
   • 2007, J. Harold Ellens, Radical Grace:

     If these reports are true, this God is one sick puppy, and dangerous. He solves all his ultimate impasses with ultimate violence.