mack

See also: Mack and маск

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

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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 out

Translations

To act as pimp; to pander

• 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!‎^[1]:

     “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

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 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

Swedish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/
• Rhymes: -ak

Noun

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.

   • 1986, Claes Eriksson (lyrics and music), “Truckdriving song”, in Macken [The gas station], performed by Per Fritzell:

     Howdy, cowboy! Visa nu, vad har du på din mack? Jag behöver fylla skafferiet på min truck [English]. Tuggummi, så klart, snus och chips, en låda dryck, skulle jag bli glad om jag fick. Jag drar min långtradarsång, min lastbilskörarsång, för jag har sån smak för bilar med flak. Jag drar min truckdriving song [English], tjugofyra meter lång, och jag tackar Gud för countryns alla ljud. Och om låten blir för tråkig, ja, då jag tar jag det kallt. Ja, då byter jag tonart och höjer ett halvt. Ja, jag höjer ett halvt.

     Howdy, cowboy! Show me now, what do you have at your gas station? I need to fill the pantry in my truck [English]. Chewing gum, of course, snus and chips [in the US sense], a case of drink, I would be happy if I got. I do [pull] my big rig song, my truck driving song, because I have such taste for cars with a flatbed [platform]. I do my truckdriving song [English], twenty-four meters long, and I thank God for all the sounds of country music. And if the song gets too boring, yes, then I stay cool [take it cool]. Yes, then I change the key and raise by a half [step]. Yes, I raise by a half [step].

Declension

Declension of mack
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mack	macken	mackar	mackarna
Genitive	macks	mackens	mackars	mackarnas