Dictionary

Mastercard en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmæstə(ɹ)ˌkɑː(ɹ)d/
• /ˈmɑːstə(ɹ)ˌkɑː(ɹ)d/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From master + card.

Meanings

1. A credit card issued by the credit card company Mastercard.
   • “Well,” I began, “one of the talent bought his girlfriend fake …” “Fake what?” “Tits,” I said. That got the boss’s attention; he paused. “Why are someone else’s fake titties an issue for you?” he asked. “’Cause the idiot paid for them with his Mastercard.” Vince was still puzzled. “And?” “Well, the Mastercard bill is paid by the idiot’s wife.” “Goddamn.” Vince chuckled. “You don’t put things of that nature on a card.” 2020, Jim Ross, Paul O’Brien, Under the Black Hat: My Life in the WWE and Beyond, New York, N.Y.: Tiller Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc., published 2021, →ISBN, page 7:
   • And when they got to the funeral, well, Roger and Buddy were running around to various banks trying to raise ten thousand dollars from their Mastercards, and Jamie thought he might have to help them out, and nobody ever knew that Jamie was very poor, and Jamie always put up a good front, and Jamie would have helped them bury their mother too. 2019, James Harrison Cohen, Confessions of an Old Man: Gone Are the Days: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
   • He paid for everything with his Mastercard and Betsy was just starting to warn me about this when a background disturbance gradually got too loud to ignore. 2021, Victoria Nelson, Neighbor George, London: Strange Attractor Press/Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN:

Forms

Relateds

Visa

Synonyms

MC · Master

Translations (6)

ar مَاسْتَرْكَارْد (credit card) · hi मास्टरकार्ड (credit card) · ko 마스터카드 (credit card) · fr Mastercard (credit card) · cmn 萬事達卡 /万事达卡 (credit card) · ja マスターカード (credit card)