"sick-ass" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, L. A. Banks, The Wicked, →ISBN:",
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          "text": "And I definitely didn't find anything that pointed towards her having any sort of an affiliation with a sick-ass killer.",
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          "text": "I was getting bigger for having this kid and basically homeless, and my mother hated me because her sick-ass husband thought he was in control of me.",
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          "ref": "2016, John Vitale, Last Man Standing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "You really are one sick-ass, crazy motherfucker.",
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        "Mentally disturbed or unsound; malevolently crazy."
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          "text": "That caught the ear of Dr. Rhyme, one of hip hop's most influential producers, the genius behind Da Sick Niggaz Convention Rhyme put his trackers out to find that “crazy motherfuckah with the sick-ass lyrics and slick production.”",
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          "ref": "2011, H.L. Rogers, Peter Littleton, The Rogers & Littleton Guide to America's Douchiest Colleges, →ISBN, page 46:",
          "text": "Living at home, not because you can't afford housing, but because your parents have a sick-ass spread right on Biscayne Bay, just across the street from Alex Rodriguez, and they promised you the pool house, as long as you don't mess with the $60,000 filtration system;",
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          "text": "There's a sick-ass poetry slam every month. Real good stuff.",
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