mack

See also: Mack and маск

English

Etymology

Short for mackerel ‎(“pimp”), after French maquereau ‎(“pimp, ponce”), from Middle French makerele ‎(“brothel madam”), from Middle Dutch makelare ("broker, traficker"; > Dutch makelaar ‎(“mediator, agent”)), from Middle Dutch makelen ‎(“to traffick”), frequentative of maken ‎(“to do, make”). More at make.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

Noun

mack ‎(plural macks)

1. (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.

   She left with him; he must be a true mack.

2. (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.”

Derived terms

• mack daddy

Translations

A raincoat

• Finnish: sadetakki (fi)

Verb

mack ‎(third-person singular simple present macks, present participle macking, simple past and past participle macked)

1. (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.
2. (slang) To seduce or flirt with.

Translations

To act as pimp; to pander

• Finnish: parittaa (fi)

To seduce or flirt with

• Finnish: vietellä (fi), flirttailla (fi)

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

mak +‎ -k

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat͡sk/

Noun

mack m

1. Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)

Declension

Declension of mack

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mack	macka	macki
Genitive	macka	mackowu	mackow
Dative	mackoju	mackoma	mackam
Accusative	mack	macka	macki
Instrumental	mackom	mackoma	mackami
Locative	macku	mackoma	mackach

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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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Noun

mack c

1. (somewhat colloquial) gas station

   Vi åker till macken och tankar lite.

   "Let's go down to the gas station and get some gas."

Declension

Inflection of mack
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mack	macken	mackar	mackarna
Genitive	macks	mackens	mackars	mackarnas

Synonyms

• bensinmack
• bensinstation