mack

¹ American  

[mak] / mæk /

noun

1. a pimp.

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verb (used without object)

1. to flirt with or make sexual advances toward someone (often followed byon ).

   They spend their nights macking on the ladies.

mack ² American  

[mak] / mæk /

noun

Informal.

1. mac.

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Mack ³ American  

[mak] / mæk /

noun

1. Connie Cornelius McGillicuddy, 1862–1956, U.S. baseball player and manager.

2. a male given name.

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mack ¹ British  

/ mæk /

noun

1. informal a variant spelling of mac short for mackintosh mackintosh

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mack ² British  

/ mæk /

noun

1. slang a pimp

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Etymology

Origin of mack

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

Example Sentences

It’s the mack daddy of all the armor.

From Los Angeles Times

Thanks to LA’s session musician elite, Hey Nineteen is polished to a sheen, but the narrator’s regretful realisation that he is too old to mack on teenage girls makes for uneasy listening.

From The Guardian

CC is the most solemnly unnerving of the Midtown mack daddies – feminine perm, giant clown collars and all – because CC is the one whose relationships most blur the line between cold commerce and loving kindness.

From The Guardian

“Jump into the harbor,” he said casually, like another kid might say, I'm going to get a mack.

From Literature

Over productions that harken back to classic west coast gangsta rap, Giovanni lays his mack down with parading verses that replicate cruising with the top down.

From The Guardian

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