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vac

/væk/

vac is the clipping of vacation.

vac is the clipping of vacuum cleaner.

vac is the clipping of vacuum.

vac is the clipping of vaccine.

Meaning of vacation

Noun

vacation (countable and uncountable, plural vacations)

  1. An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure.
    • We were on vacation in Florida this year.
    Synonyms:
    holiday
  2. An extended period of leisure time away from work or school.
    • Schoolchildren are on vacation this week.
    Synonyms:
    holiday
  3. A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
  4. The act of vacating something; moving out.
    • The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.
    Synonyms:
    departure, moveout
  5. (US) The act of making legally void.
  6. (general) Freedom from some business or activity.

See all 9 meanings of vacation

Meaning of vacuum cleaner

Noun

vacuum cleaner (plural vacuum cleaners)

  1. A device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.
    Synonyms:
    hoover, vacuum, sweeper
  2. (euphemistic, slang) The buttocks.
    • And if that's not a good enough explanation, you can shove it up your vacuum cleaner and turn it on high!2000, Irving Berlin, White Christmas

Verb

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vaccing or vacking, simple past and past participle vacced or vacked)

  1. 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

Noun capitalized: VAC

VAC (plural VAC)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of volt of alternating current.

Proper noun capitalized: VAC

VAC

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Velvet Acid Christ.

Forms of vac

Noun
pluralvacs
pluralVAC
Verb
third-person singular presentvacs
present participlevaccing
present participlevacking
past participlevacced
pastvacced
past participlevacked
pastvacked

Origin of vac

Abbreviations.

Words formed from vac

Phrases with vac

Questions about vac

What does vac mean?
Vac means to vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
What is vac the clipping of?
Vac is the clipping of vacation.
What part of speech is vac?
Vac can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vac?
Vac is pronounced /væk/.
What is the past tense of vac?
The past tense of vac is vacced.

Words near vac in the dictionary

  1. vabbing
  2. vabicaserin
  3. vaborbactam
  4. vabs
  5. Vabson
  6. vac
  7. vac bed
  8. vac beds
  9. vac pack
  10. vac packed
  11. vac packing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vac (page history and authors); VAC (page history and authors); vacation (page history and authors); vacuum cleaner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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