vac

American  

[vak] / væk /

noun

Informal.

• vacs
  plural

1. vacuum cleaner.

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vac British  

/ væk /

noun

1. informal short for vacation

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• vacs
  plural

Etymology

Origin of vac

By shortening

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

vac vacs

How, when one of their houses flooded, David was the first to show up at his door with a shop vac to help clean up.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

Inside, he used the power washer and a shop vac to clean out ash that had collected in the windowsills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025

Lidl said its new vac packs could be taken to recycling collection points.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2023

“Andor” has a small, decrepit, R2-D2-like figure named B2EMO, voiced by Dave Chapman and sort of a cross between a toolbox and a shop vac.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

I run the vac over the carpet in the living room.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

So make a clean break from "dirty" — and grab rubber gloves, shop vacs and cleaning concoctions to refresh some of the oft-forgotten but important spots around the house or apartment.

From Fox News ● Mar. 21, 2022

First, it doesn’t have AI-obstacle recognition, a feature that allows robot vacs to dodge danger — such as charging cables, shoes, and the new puppy’s oopsie.

From The Verge ● Jan. 27, 2022

I spent those long vacs in Austria, Portugal, and, for the most part, Spain.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020

Anthony, the editor of vacuum-reviews website Best Vacuum Expert, told me that for a top-down clean, robo vacs are still a bit gimmicky.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2018

I expect you will, but one grown-up at home is as much as we can afford, and there’ll be lovely long vacs.

From A College Girl by William H. C. Groome