vac

[ vak ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Informal.

vac

/ væk /

Origin of vac¹

By shortening

There is a general feeling that you are no nuisance, and had better stop till the end of the vac.

It obviously hadn't been a nuclear blow-up of any proportions, or he wouldn't be here now, zipping up the front of his vac suit.

Nobody would put on a vac suit and run away like that if he was in his right mind.

But on the moon nobody responds to an emergency call without a vac suit.

There was plenty of air still in this corridor, and there was apparently little likelihood of his needing his vac suit.

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