Definition of "wickup" []

• An onomatopoeic representation of the chirp of certain species of flickers. (interjection)

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• "Bateese called it; but the fire, due to lightning no doubt, must have happened many years before, for spruces of fair growth rose behind the alders on the swampy shore, and tall wickup plants and tussocks of the blueberry choked the interspaces."
• "a splash of blood among the mosses, and again another on the leaves of a wickup plant a rod or two farther on the trail."