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vac en · NOUN

Abbreviations.

(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of vacation (“extended period of time away from work or school”).
alt of vacation
- It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac. 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 324:
- From 1960 to 1963 I spent my terms at Cambridge University but was back home for the vacs[.] 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 45:
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of vacuum cleaner.
alt of vacuum cleaner
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of vacuum.
alt of vacuum
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of vaccine.
alt of vaccine

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
vacs	Number=Plur		lexicographic

robovac (vacuum cleaner) · long vac (vacation) · shopvac (vacuum cleaner) · swot vac (vacation) · vac bed (vacuum) · minivac (vacuum cleaner) · vac pack (vacuum)

Abbreviations.

To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc. 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star, page 332:

Spelling	Features	Source
vacced	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
vacced	Tense=Past	lexicographic
vacked	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
vacked	Tense=Past	lexicographic
vacs	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
vacking	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
vaccing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic