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WAC

WAC proper noun: the station code of Wan Chai in Hong Kong. Also the initialism of Women's Army Corps.

Proper noun

WAC

  1. The station code of Wan Chai in Hong Kong.

Noun (1)

WAC (plural WACs)

  1. A member of the Women's Army Corps.

Noun (2) capitalized: Wac

Wac (plural Wacs)

  1. (US, historical, slang) A member of the Women's Army Corps, the women's branch of the United States Army from 1942-1978.
    • I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 172

Also used as

WAC is also the initialism of Women's Army Corps.

Forms of WAC

pluralWACs
pluralWacs

Origin of WAC

Initialism of Women's Army Corps.

Questions about WAC

What does WAC mean?
WAC means the station code of Wan Chai in Hong Kong.
What part of speech is WAC?
WAC can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near WAC in the dictionary

  1. Wabuma
  2. Wabun code
  3. Wabun codes
  4. Wabush
  5. wabyeong
  6. WAC
  7. wacadash
  8. WACC
  9. Waccamaw
  10. Waccamaws
  11. waccy baccy

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