vac

[ vak ]

nounInformal.

Origin of vac

1
By shortening

Words Nearby vac

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How to use vac in a sentence

  • There is a general feeling that you are no nuisance, and had better stop till the end of the vac.

    The Longest Journey | E. M. Forster
  • It obviously hadn't been a nuclear blow-up of any proportions, or he wouldn't be here now, zipping up the front of his vac suit.

    The Bramble Bush | Gordon Randall Garrett
  • Nobody would put on a vac suit and run away like that if he was in his right mind.

    The Bramble Bush | Gordon Randall Garrett
  • But on the moon nobody responds to an emergency call without a vac suit.

    The Bramble Bush | Gordon Randall Garrett
  • There was plenty of air still in this corridor, and there was apparently little likelihood of his needing his vac suit.

    The Bramble Bush | Gordon Randall Garrett

British Dictionary definitions for vac

vac

/ (væk) /


noun
  1. British informal short for vacation

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