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mac
1[ mak ]
noun
- fellow; bud (a familiar term of address to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
mac
2[ mak ]
noun
- a mackintosh.
mac
3[ mak ]
Mac
4[ mak ]
noun
- a male given name.
Mac.
5abbreviation for
- Maccabees.
M.Ac.
6abbreviation for
- Master of Accountancy.
Mac-
7- a prefix found in many family names of Irish or Scottish Gaelic origin, as MacBride and Macdonald.
Mac
1/ mæk /
noun
- an informal term of address to a man
Mac-
2prefix
- (in surnames of Scottish or Irish Gaelic origin) son of
MacDonald
MacNeice
MAC
3abbreviation for
- multiplexed analogue component: a transmission coding system for colour television using satellite broadcasting
mac
4/ mæk /
noun
- See mackintoshinformal.short for mackintosh mackintosh
Mac.
5abbreviation for
- Maccabees (books of the Apocrypha)
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Example Sentences
With Mac and Jesse we wanted to establish a friendship that was mostly a product of their common situation and enclosed world.
Brute is the story of Mac and Jesse, two disenfranchised teens who turn to robbing houses as a form of recreation and quick cash.
Fewer and fewer of them, says Mac Naughton, are caught roaming the store “in the middle of the night.”
I remember them coming over all adorable with mac and cheese, collard greens, fried chicken.
As with AIG, the government essentially bailed out the financial system by bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
When we were mounted Mac leaned over and muttered an admonitory word for Piegan's ear alone.
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.
One or two of the buffalo-hunters exchanged words with us while Mac was building his cigarette and lighting it.
When we got down into the bottom Mac turned aside to the deep-worn trail and glanced sharply down at the ruts.
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