mack

See also: Mack and маск

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

• Audio (General Australian):

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

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”).

Noun

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

Derived terms

• mack daddy

Verb

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
     

Derived terms

• mack down
• mack on
• mack out

Translations

To act as pimp; to pander

Czech: (slang) pást (cs) impf Finnish: parittaa (fi)

To seduce or flirt with

Czech: svádět impf Finnish: vietellä (fi), flirttailla (fi) Russian: флиртовать (ru) impf (flirtovatʹ), клеить (ru) impf (kleitʹ) (slang), фоловать impf (folovatʹ) (slang)

Etymology 2

Clipping of mackintosh.

Noun

mack (plural macks)

1. (British) 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.”

Translations

A raincoat

Finnish: sadetakki (fi) Russian: макинтош (ru) m (makintoš), плащ (ru) m (plašč)

Etymology 3

English Wikipedia has an article on:

mack (naval architecture)

Wikipedia

Blend of mast +‎ stack.

Noun

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.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

mak +‎ -k

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat͡sk/

Noun

mack m inan

1. Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)

Declension

Declension of mack

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mack	macka	macki
Genitive	macka	mackowu	mackow
Dative	mackoju	mackoma	mackam
Accusative	mack	macka	macki
Instrumental	mackom	mackoma	mackami
Locative	macku	mackoma	mackach

Further reading

• 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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mack m

1. obsolete spelling 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