mack
See also: Mack and маск
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæk/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æk
- Homophones: mac, Mac, Mack
Etymology 1
Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”)
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.
- 1997, “The Projects”, in Wu-Tang Forever, performed by Wu-Tang Clan:
- 007 mark the secret agent
That macks well and gets smart through entertainment
Derived terms
- mack daddy
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.
- 1995, “Top Down”, in Cocktails, performed by Too Short:
- A show, a ho smashed back to the O
Put them bitches on my beeper then pull some mo’
Cause I bump more hoes than acne
I guess you bitch can’t learn that you just can’t mack me
- Synonyms: entice, pick up
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Derived terms
- mack out
Translations
To act as pimp; to pander
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To seduce or flirt with
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Etymology 2
Clipping of mackintosh
Noun
mack (plural macks)
- (Britain) A raincoat or mackintosh.
- 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:
- “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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Translations
A raincoat
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Etymology 3
Blend of mast + stack
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
mak + -k
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mat͡sk/
Noun
mack m
- Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)
Declension
Declension of mack
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
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Nominative | mack | macka | macki |
Genitive | macka | mackowu | mackow |
Dative | mackoju | mackoma | mackam |
Accusative | mack | macka | macki |
Instrumental | mackom | mackoma | mackami |
Locative | macku | mackoma | mackach |
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
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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.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mak/
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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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mack | macken | mackar | mackarna |
Genitive | macks | mackens | mackars | mackarnas |
References
- mack in Svensk ordbok (SO)