mac
/mæk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
noun
A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).
Australian usage; Canadian usage; British usage; American usage; Derogatory; Offensive
name
A diminutive of the male given name Max.
name
A diminutive for a person with a surname that starts with "Mac" or "Mc".
Canadian usage; American usage
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "Is there any mac and cheese left?"
- "Who wrote "kick me" on my back? Who put a spider in my mac?"
- "Nothing tastes better to me than a big ol' bowl of super creamy, cheesy mac!"
- "Have you got a light, Mac?"
- "TIME was, the stereotypical New York cabdriver was a gabby if slightly gruff man with a Brooklyn accent who knew every pothole in every street in every borough and greeted people with the world-weary query, "Where to, Mac?""
Etymology
Clipping of mackintosh.
Usage
- Australian usage
- Canadian usage
- British usage
- American usage
- Derogatory
- Offensive
- Slang
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
PC
personal computer
home computer
desktop computer
personal workstation
graphic workstation
graphics workstation