mack
/mæk/
mack noun: an individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills; a seducer.
Noun (1)
mack (plural macks)
Verb
mack (third-person singular simple present macks, present participle macking, simple past and past participle macked)
Noun (2)
mack (plural macks)
- A (pouch or unit of) mackerel, used as food and currency in prison.
- "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
- 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...2016, Charles Wheelan, Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System
Noun (3)
mack (plural macks)
- 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!
Noun (4)
mack (plural macks)
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Mack
Mack
- Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- Synonyms:
- guy, term of address for a man or person
- A diminutive of the male given name Max.
- A surname.
- The Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.
Noun (5) capitalized: Mack
Mack (plural Macks)
- Ellipsis of Mack truck.
Synonyms of mack
Forms of mack
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | macks |
| plural | Macks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | macks |
| present participle | macking |
| past participle | macked |
| past | macked |
Origin of mack
Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”).
Clipping of mackerel (“fish”).
Clipping of mackintosh.
Words formed from mack
Phrases with mack
Words that rhyme with mack
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- plaque
- whack
- slack
- Cadillac
- swack
- thwack
- pac
- shack
- bivouac
- cack
- clack
- gack
- lack
- smack
- unpack
- wrack
- aback
- flak
- hark back
- claque
- flack
- knack
- quack
- shellac
- snack
- yak
- Aach
- ack
- gak
- mac
- Meshach
- multitrack
- plack
- snacc
- wack
- akh
- alack
- awrack
- brach
- cac
- Cayman Brac
- Chiraq
- cook back
- craic
- diclofenac
- dictionary attack
- dime back
- fac
Questions about mack
- What does mack mean?
- Mack means an individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills; a seducer.
- What part of speech is mack?
- Mack can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mack?
- Mack is pronounced /mæk/.
- What is the plural of mack?
- The plural of mack is macks.
Words near mack in the dictionary
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