mack

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

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• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophones: mac, Mac, Mack

Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”)

mack (plural macks)

1. (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills; a seducer

   She left with him; he must be a true mack.

   • 1997, “The Projects”, in Wu-Tang Forever, performed by Wu-Tang Clan:

     007 mark the secret agent
     That macks well and gets smart through entertainment
     

2. (slang) A pimp or procurer

• mack daddy

mack (third-person singular simple present macks, present participle macking, simple past and past participle macked)

1. (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.

   Synonyms: hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out

2. (slang) To seduce or flirt with.

   Synonyms: entice, pick up

   • 1995, “Top Down”, in Cocktails, performed by Too Short:

     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
     

• mack out

Clipping of mackintosh

mack (plural macks)

1. (Britain) A raincoat or mackintosh.
   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!‎:

     “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.”

Blend of mast +‎ stack

mack (plural macks)

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.

mak +‎ -k

• IPA^(key): /mat͡sk/

mack m

1. Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “mack”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “mack”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

mack m

1. obsolete typography of makk
   • 1647, “LAnte oster Kraakelund”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 38:

     A[a]rrin kurra punde Biørckie Roet / Fadn ein vesal Mack

     The blackgame cooed beneath birch root / [and] found a small worm

Since 1920 from the trademark MACK, an initialism for "Mathiasson, Andersson, Collin, Key", the owners of one of the first companies that opened gas stations in Sweden.[1]

• IPA^(key): /mak/
• Rhymes: -ak

mack c

1. (somewhat colloquial) a gas station

   Synonyms: bensinmack, bensinstation

   Vi åker till macken och tankar lite.

   Let's go down to the gas station and get some gas.