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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kind of game, apparently played with the use of clubs.
  2. n. A certain bird. See black-mack.
  3. n. A corruption of Mary, with reference to the Virgin Mary.

Wiktionary

  1. n. slang An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.
  2. n. UK A raincoat.
  3. v. slang To act as pimp; to pander.
  4. v. slang To seduce or flirt with.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A mackintosh; -- a shortened form.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric

Etymologies

  1. Abbreviation of mackerel, after French maquereau. (Wiktionary)

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  • “Paul Wilson: @mack: Well you can argue about how much "realism" any comic which contains a solar-powered ... mack: > The realistic tone of today's comics.”

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  • “Mack Brown, for this recruiting cycle at least, the word mack is synonymous with a top tier running back.”

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  • “Another way to look at it is the mack is the smart one and the buck is the physical one.”

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  • “Unlike those more expensive delicacies, former prisoners say, the mack is a good stand-in for the greenback because each can (or pouch) costs about $1 and few - other than weight-lifters craving protein - want to eat it.”

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  • “Unlike ... more expensive delicacies, former prisoners say, the mack is a good stand-in for the greenback because each can (or pouch) costs about $1 and few -- other than weight-lifters craving protein -- want to eat it.”

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  • “Unlike those more expensive delicacies, former prisoners say, the mack is a good stand-in for the greenback because each can (or pouch) costs about $1 and few -- other than weight-lifters craving protein -- want to eat it.”

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  • “I know, you're trying to make it seem like a mack is the everyday guy's computer, but after ... how many, forty five bash ads? it's gone past advertising and gone into the realm of playground immaturity.”

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  • “[Hel announces that she wants to change her name to "sukey tawdry" from "jj french," which is what she currently insists on being called ...] helen: how can you not like sukey tawdry? nick: its stupid jj french is better helen: hisssssssss it's not stupid nick: yeah it is jj french is better sukey tawdry sounds like a fake vietnamese hooker name helen: you should listen harder to mack the knife cause she's one of the girls that disappeared her and ol 'lucy brown nick: uh huh never heard that song helen: you have you just don't know it's called mack the knife youtube it nick: ok in a bit”

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  • “Like other federal inmates around the country, they found a can of mackerel -- the "mack" in prison lingo -- was the standard currency.”

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  • “He was 21 years old and finishing high school at our community college for obvious reasons, you don't want a 21-year-old in high school, and especially not this one; his absolute lack of fear in social situations caused him to, in the language of the time, "mack" on every female student he encountered.”

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