mack
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
mack (plural macks)
- (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.
- She left with him; he must be a true mack.
Derived terms
Verb
mack (third-person singular simple present macks, present participle macking, simple past and past participle macked)
- (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.
- Synonyms: hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out
- (slang) To seduce or flirt with.
Translations
To act as pimp; to pander
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To seduce or flirt with
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
mack (plural macks)
- (British) A raincoat or mackintosh.
- 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled![1]:
- “Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”
Translations
A raincoat
Etymology 3
Noun
mack (plural macks)
- An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions.
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mack m ?
Declension
Declension of mack
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “mack”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “mack”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
mack m
- obsolete typography of makk
- 1647, “LAnte oster Kraakelund”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 38:
- A[a]rrin kurra punde Biørckie Roet / Fadn ein vesal Mack
- The blackgame cooed beneath birch root / [and] found a small worm
Swedish
Etymology
Since 1920 from the trademark MACK, the abbreviation for "Mathiasson, Andersson, Collin, Key", the owners of one of the first companies that opened gas stations in Sweden.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
mack c
- (somewhat colloquial) gas station
- Synonyms: bensinmack, bensinstation
- Vi åker till macken och tankar lite.
- Let's go down to the gas station and get some gas.
Declension
Declension of mack | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mack | macken | mackar | mackarna |
Genitive | macks | mackens | mackars | mackarnas |
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