vac
Americannoun
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vacs
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of vac
By shortening
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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
Dan Pryor initially called a friend to bring over a shop vac Monday morning when floodwaters started creeping into his San Diego home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
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
Most robot vacs that also mop put most of their power into vacuuming, and the mopping portion is more about ineffectually dragging a wet towel over your floor.
From The Verge ● Jan. 17, 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
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