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Macca en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈmækə/

Meanings

  1. (Australia, colloquial) A McDonald′s restaurant.
  2. (Australia, colloquial) Macquarie Island; used chiefly by people who have visited the island.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of Macca Oromo, a tribal grouping of the Oromo people.
    • We shall use available written accounts and the oral tradition to highlight the Macca expansion and settlement, to study their interaction with other peoples and cultures, and to analyze the subsequent evolutionary and revolutionary changes in their political economy in western central Ethiopia. 2006, Catherine Griefenow-Mewis, editor, The Political Economy of an African Society in Transformation: the Case of Macca Oromo (Ethiopia), page 31:

Macca en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈmækə/

Meanings

  1. (Australia, UK) A diminutive of any surname beginning with Mac or Mc.
    • ‘It was just Macca being Macca: thumbs up Macca or prodding Macca.’ As he poked Measles in the chest, Paul asked: ‘What the fuck do you know? I fucking brought you down from Liverpool.’ 2010, Howard Sounes, Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, unnumbered page:

Forms

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Maccas Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

Mac