acker
Britishnoun
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informal a variant spelling of acca
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slang a pimple
Etymology
Origin of acker
for sense 2, a shortened form of acne
Example Sentences
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The Big Ten is partly in this predicament, Acker said, because conference commissioners in general “were ceded far too much power.”
“The Big Ten has expanded four times, adding seven schools, in the last 14 years,” said Jordan Acker, a regent at the University of Michigan, in a recent meeting.
James Acker and Ryan Champagne describe it this way: “Shots from the marksmen’s rifles missed his heart. Not strapped into the chair where he had been seated, Wilkerson lurched onto the ground and exclaimed, ‘My God!
From Slate
In 2017, Kraus published an exhilarating and somewhat nontraditional biography of Kathy Acker, who died in 1997.
From Los Angeles Times
“After Kathy Acker” brought a writer who had long puzzled me vividly to life and was a guide and inspiration for my last novel, which was the reason Kraus and I first met in spring of this year.
From Los Angeles Times
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