Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of game, apparently played with the use of clubs.
- n. A certain bird. See black-mack.
- n. A corruption of Mary, with reference to the Virgin Mary.
Wiktionary
- n. slang An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.
- n. UK A raincoat.
- v. slang To act as pimp; to pander.
- v. slang To seduce or flirt with.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mackintosh; -- a shortened form.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
Etymologies
- Abbreviation of mackerel, after French maquereau. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“Mack Brown, for this recruiting cycle at least, the word mack is synonymous with a top tier running back.”
Florida Gators Football: GatorBait.net -- Florida Football Headlines
“Another way to look at it is the mack is the smart one and the buck is the physical one.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“[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”
Nick Antosca: A Conversation with Literary Wunderkind Helen Oyeyemi
“Like other federal inmates around the country, they found a can of mackerel -- the "mack" in prison lingo -- was the standard currency.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mack’.
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•Open List: Songboys
Inspired by gangerh's extremely addictive list songbirds, this is the same type list, but for male names. Same rules apply:
Names of boys in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the title...jack, jesse, jakey, john, arthur, nick, donald, bill, billy, gideon, riley, charlie and 95 more...
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gangster
random gangster lingo and street slang with extra absurdities.
( open list, randomness )
related:
http://www....swagga, chinga, slams, blitzy, earf, manor, code name, rekkid, weight, feather, kong, swisher and 324 more...
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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Team Waste
wastegash, minor, minotaur, sick, ......... game on..., bare, man, gash, all about ......, allow, sicko, standard and 31 more...
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american english
jesus handle, newscaster, motherfucker, rad, def, gerrymander, michigander, governator, jock, bullshit, badass, trash and 10 more...
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Poetrie: Ballade of Good Doctrine to ...
Four translations of Villon's "Ballade de bonne doctrine a ceux de mauvaise vie" (~1461)
Ballad of Good Doctrine
To Those of Evil Life (H. De Vere stacpoole, 1914) ...screeve, go cheap-jack, fake the broads, fig a nag, thimble-rig, knap a yack, pitch a snide, smash a rag, duff, nose and lag, get the straight, land your pot and 37 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "Mack the Knife." Feb 10, 2008