mack1
[mak]Slang.
- a pimp.
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- to flirt with or make sexual advances toward someone (often followed by on): They spend their nights macking on the ladies.
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Origin of mack1
mack2
[mak]
- mac2.
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Mack
[mak]
- Con·nie [kon-ee] /ˈkɒn i/, Cornelius McGillicuddy, 1862–1956, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- a male given name.
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mac2
or mack
[mak]
- a mackintosh.
- McIntosh.
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Origin of mac2
shortened form
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Examples from the Web for mack
Contemporary Examples
It was how Charlie recruited Mack (Emily Mortimer) to work at ACN in the first place.
And as a writer and actor on The Mack, he made that film feel both more desperate and more poignant.
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 PugilistsRobert 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.”
War Machine tweeted out this same sense of entitlement towards Mack in the days leading up to the incident.
Historical Examples
The main body of the Neapolitans, under Mack, did not behave better.
The Life of Horatio Lord NelsonRobert Southey
Mack, on his part, did not fail to praise the force which he was appointed to command.
The Life of Horatio Lord NelsonRobert Southey
It was all we could do to keep him from cooking one of them "mack'rel" with his own hands.
Cape Cod StoriesJoseph C. Lincoln
He grabbed at it like the "Labrador mack'rel" grabbed Stumpton's hook.
Cape Cod StoriesJoseph C. Lincoln
If you're fishin' for eels there ain't no use usin' a mack'rel jig.
Cap'n EriJoseph Crosby Lincoln
mack1
- British informal a variant spelling of mac short for mackintosh (def. 1), mackintosh (def. 3)
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mack2
- slang a pimp
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Word Origin
C19: shortened from obsolete mackerel, from Old French, of uncertain origin
Mac1
- mainly US and Canadian an informal term of address to a man
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Word Origin
C20: abstracted from Mac-, prefix of Scottish surnames
MAC
- multiplexed analogue component: a transmission coding system for colour television using satellite broadcasting
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mac
mack
- 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.
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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-).
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