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vac

[vak]
noun Informal.
  1. vacuum cleaner.
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Origin of vac

by shortening
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Historical Examples of vac

  • She might or might not have her vac suit on; I knew she had several of them on Ceres.

    A Spaceship Named McGuire

    Gordon Randall Garrett

  • I carried it back with me when I returned to Garside after vac.

    The Hero of Garside School

    J. Harwood Panting

  • He checked it over carefully and began shucking his vac suit.

    The Bramble Bush

    Gordon Randall Garrett

  • It was a ferociously hot day at the beginning of the summer vac.

    Boycotted

    Talbot Baines Reed

  • That evening he heard the Winchester boys making plans for the winter sports at Pontresina in the Christmas vac.

British Dictionary definitions for vac

vac

noun
  1. British informal short for vacation
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Word Origin and History for vac

1709 as a colloquial shortening of vacation; 1942 as a colloquial shortening of vacuum (v.); 1974 as a colloquial shortening of vacuum cleaner.

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