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mack en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”).

Meanings

  1. (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills; a seducer
    • 007 mark the secret agent That macks well and gets smart through entertainment 1997, “The Projects”, in Wu-Tang Forever, performed by Wu-Tang Clan:
    • She left with him; he must be a true mack.
  2. (slang) A pimp or procurer

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Deriveds

mack daddy

mack en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”).

Meanings

  1. (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.
  2. (slang) To seduce or flirt with.
    • A show, a ho smashed back to the O Put them bitches on my beeper then pull some mo’ Cause I bump more hoes than acne I guess you bitch can’t learn that you just can’t mack me 1995, “Top Down”, in Cocktails, performed by Too Short:

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macks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
macked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
macked Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

mack down · mack out · mack on

Synonyms

pimp out · whore out · mack · pimp · entice · pander · prostitute · pick up · ponce · whore · dog out · whore out · hustle · punk · hustle

Translations (8)

cs svádět (To seduce or flirt with) · fi flirttailla (To seduce or flirt with) · ru фоловать (To seduce or flirt with) · fi parittaa (To act as pimp; to pander) · ru клеить (To seduce or flirt with) · cs pást (To act as pimp; to pander) · ru флиртовать (To seduce or flirt with) · fi vietellä (To seduce or flirt with)

mack en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

Clipping of mackerel (“fish”).

Meanings

  1. (slang) A (pouch or unit of) mackerel, used as food and currency in prison.
    • To make this more intuitive, let's revisit our prison mackerel example, just after the Red Cross has lavished fifty new pouches of mackerel on each inmate. […] We would expect prison prices in macks to rise roughly in proportion to the increase in the supply of mackerel induced by the humanitarian shipment. But what if there have been several stabbings with shanks made out of sharpened toothbrushes and the warden is threatening a lockdown? As a precaution against losing access to the canteen, many of the prisoners might decide to keep more mackerel under their beds. The speed at which macks circulated for trades would slow down as pouches piled up under bunks. A doubling of the supply of macks in the prison would not lead to a doubling of prices, since many of the new macks would be out of circulation rather than chasing prison goods. 2016, Charles Wheelan, Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System:
    • "Macks" [...] don't divide very well, so they're not as useful for transactions that cost less than one “mack” or require a partial “mack.” So “macks” are reasonably good at being money, but they're not perfect. 2011, Chris Martenson, The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, page 42:

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mack en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

Etymology

Clipping of mackintosh.

Meanings

  1. (UK) A raincoat or mackintosh.
    • “Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.” 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:

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Translations (3)

fi sadetakki (A raincoat) · ru макинтош (A raincoat) · ru плащ (A raincoat)

mack en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

Etymology

Blend of mast + stack.

Meanings

  1. An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions.

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