mack
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.
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Verb[edit]
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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
To seduce or flirt with
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
mack (plural macks)
- (Britain) 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.”
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Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mack m
Declension[edit]
Declension of mack
Further reading[edit]
- 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[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mack | macken | mackar | mackarna |
Genitive | macks | mackens | mackars | mackarnas |
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