guac

[gwahk]

noun

Informal.

1. guacamole.

Word History and Origins

Origin of guac¹

First recorded in 1980–85; by shortening

Example Sentences

I made chili and sent my husband on a Trader Joe’s run because guac and chips are required.

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“I hear he makes a killer guac,” I said sarcastically, holding the book out.

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Two days before a shooter armed with an AR-15-style rifle killed an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, and injured 21 others in a mass shooting at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis, Manuel and Patricia Oliver embarked on a six-day drive from Florida to Los Angeles to take meetings in advance of the West Coast premiere of Manuel’s one-man show, “Guac.”

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The show, which was co-written by Manuel and James Clements and directed by Michael Cotey, is about Manuel’s son, Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, who was killed on Valentine’s Day 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after being shot four times by a 19-year-old armed with an AR-15.

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Manuel, a painter by trade, first conceived of “Guac” early in the COVID-19 pandemic, and has since performed it around the country, including at New York’s Public Theater and Woolly Mammoth in Washington, D.C.

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