mac

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mac"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Macedonian.

Symbol

mac

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Macedonian.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Macedonian terms

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: măk, IPA^(key): /mæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackintosh.

Noun

mac (plural macs)

1. Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
   • 1969, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, 0:04 from the start, in The Ballad of John and Yoko‎ (music video), The Beatles (actor), Vevo, published 2017:

     Standing in the dock at Southampton / Trying to get to Holland or France / The man in the mac said / You've got to go back / You know they didn't even give us a chance

2. (UK, US, Canada, Australia, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).

Derived terms

• pac-a-mac

Translations

mackintosh — see mackintosh

Etymology 2

Clipping of macaroni.

Noun

mac (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US, slang) Clipping of macaroni.

   Is there any mac and cheese left?

   • 1998, Dennis Doyle, edited by Alison Sage, Treasury of Children's Poetry, Shirley Said, page 177:

     Who wrote "kick me" on my back?
     Who put a spider in my mac?

   • 2019, Gail Green, Marci Peschke, Lunch Recipe Queen (Kylie Jean), North Mankato, Minn.: Picture Window Books, Capstone, →ISBN, page 6:

     Nothing tastes better to me than a big ol' bowl of super creamy, cheesy mac!

Derived terms

• chili mac
• mac and cheese, mac 'n' cheese
• mac salad

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

Catalan

Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmak]

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

1. (balearic) small stone, pebble

   Synonym: còdol

Derived terms

• mac de torrent
• macar

Further reading

• “mac”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Etymology 1

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, slang) clipping of maquereau (“pimp”)
   • 1997, “Elle donne son corps avant son nom”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:

     Devant la porte, y'avait le type du bar, la baraque / On a compris, mais trop tard, que ce mec était leur mac

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, computing) clipping of Macintosh

Further reading

• “mac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.