mack

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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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  1. A kind of game, apparently played with the use of clubs. Att ale howse too sit, at mack or at mall, Tables or dyce, or that cardis men call, Or what oother game owte of season dwe, Let them be punysched without all rescue. Sir W. Forrest, quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, [p. 429.
  2. A certain bird. See black-mack. One Curtius, … when he supped on a time with Augustus, toke vp a leane birde of the kinde of blacke mackes out of the dishe. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 274. (Davies.)

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  • Dooley Wo­mack, whom the computer had called "cousin." —  answer
  • 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. —  Marginal Revolution
  • 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. —  Boing Boing
  • 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. —  Business Opportunities Weblog
  • Another package I think worthy of migration is mack-notifier, which provides, in my opinion, a really nice clean API for doing notifications, whether they be email, Jabber, SMS, etc … I also really like the mack-data_factory package. —  RubyForge Gems
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  1. from Old French macque, maque, make, variant of mace, a club: see mace.
  2. Origin not ascertained.
 

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