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mack

1

[ mak ]

noun

  1. a pimp.


verb (used without object)

  1. to flirt with or make sexual advances toward someone (often followed by on ):

    They spend their nights macking on the ladies.

mack

2

[ mak ]

noun

, Informal.

Mack

3

[ mak ]

noun

  1. Con·nie [kon, -ee], Cornelius McGillicuddy, 1862–1956, U.S. baseball player and manager.
  2. a male given name.

mack

1

/ mæk /

noun

  1. informal.
    a variant spelling of mac short for mackintosh mackintosh


mack

2

/ mæk /

noun

  1. slang.
    a pimp

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mack1

1885–90; by shortening of mackerel pimp < Middle French; mackerel

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mack1

C19: shortened from obsolete mackerel, from Old French, of uncertain origin

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Example Sentences

It was how Charlie recruited Mack (Emily Mortimer) to work at ACN in the first place.

And as a writer and actor on The Mack, he made that film feel both more desperate and more poignant.

He attacked girlfriend Christy Mack “multiple times over 15 months.”

According to Mack, he nearly killed her, broke 18 of her bones and, “sawed much of my hair off with [a] dull knife.”

From Janay Rice to Christy Mack to Rihanna, our obsession with celebrity victims has reached an all-time high.

She was thinking that not so very long before, she herself had paid attention to something Tilly Mack said.

Mack had remained undiscovered under the bed, an interested listener to the conversation that ensued.

Mack, the Austrian quartermaster-general, came to London and laid a plan of campaign before the ministers.

When reviewed, it had appeared to Mack and Nelson a well-equipped force of thirty thousand of the "finest troops in Europe."

It was two o'clock before "Dutchy" Mack's backer threw the sponge into the air, and three before they reached the city.

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