mack

[mak]Slang.

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noun

a pimp.

verb (used without object)

to flirt with or make sexual advances toward someone (often followed by on): They spend their nights macking on the ladies.

Origin of mack

1885–90; by shortening of mackerel pimp < Middle French; see mackerel

mack

[mak]

noun Informal.

mac².

Mack

[mak]

noun

Con·nie

[kon-ee] /ˈkɒn i/, Cornelius McGillicuddy, 1862–1956, U.S. baseball player and manager.

a male given name.

mac

or mack

[mak]

noun Informal.

a mackintosh.

McIntosh.

Origin of mac

shortened form

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Related Words for mack

hustler, overcoat, slicker, pander, whoremonger, mack, panderer, poncho, mackintosh, mac, flesh-peddler

Examples from the Web for mack

Contemporary Examples of mack

It was how Charlie recruited Mack (Emily Mortimer) to work at ACN in the first place.
'The Newsroom' Ended As It Began: Weird, Controversial, and Noble
Kevin Fallon
December 15, 2014
And as a writer and actor on The Mack, he made that film feel both more desperate and more poignant.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America
David Yaffe, Scott Saul
December 10, 2014
According to Mack, he nearly killed her, broke 18 of her bones and, “sawed much of my hair off with [a] dull knife.”
The MMA Fighters Have Gone Crazy: ‘Mayhem’ Miller the Latest in a Long Line of Psycho Pugilists
Robert Silverman
October 10, 2014
A few hours after the alleged assault on Mack took place, Koppenhaver tweeted that she was his “property and always will be.”
The Porn Party Where War Machine Went Ballistic
Aurora Snow
August 20, 2014
War Machine tweeted out this same sense of entitlement towards Mack in the days leading up to the incident.
Christy Mack: The Porn World Unites Over A Fallen Comrade
Aurora Snow
August 16, 2014

Historical Examples of mack

The main body of the Neapolitans, under Mack, did not behave better.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
Robert Southey
Mack, on his part, did not fail to praise the force which he was appointed to command.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
Robert Southey
It was all we could do to keep him from cooking one of them "mack'rel" with his own hands.
Cape Cod Stories
Joseph C. Lincoln
He grabbed at it like the "Labrador mack'rel" grabbed Stumpton's hook.
Cape Cod Stories
Joseph C. Lincoln
If you're fishin' for eels there ain't no use usin' a mack'rel jig.
Cap'n Eri
Joseph Crosby Lincoln

British Dictionary definitions for mack

mack

noun

British informal a variant spelling of mac short for mackintosh (def. 1), mackintosh (def. 3)

mack

noun

slang a pimp

Word Origin for mack

C19: shortened from obsolete mackerel, from Old French, of uncertain origin

Mac

noun

mainly US and Canadian an informal term of address to a man

Word Origin for Mac

C20: abstracted from Mac-, prefix of Scottish surnames

MAC

abbreviation for

multiplexed analogue component: a transmission coding system for colour television using satellite broadcasting

mac

mack

noun

British informal short for mackintosh (def. 1), mackintosh (def. 3)

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Word Origin and History for mack

Mack

proprietary name for a brand of heavy automobile trucks, named for brothers John M., Augustus F., and William C. Mack, who established Mack Brothers Company, N.Y., N.Y., in 1902. Their trucks formally known as "Mack Trucks" from 1910.

Mac

casual, generic term of address for a man, 1928, from Irish and Gaelic mac, a common element in Scottish and Irish names (literally "son of"); hence used generally from early 19c. for "a Celtic Irishman" (see Mac-).