Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maccas

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English

Syllables: mac-cas
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Alternative spelling of Macca's (“McDonald's”).

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang

name

"Macaronis", a surf break in Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Slang

Example Sentences

"“Then of course there′s Maccas food, which is uniformly mediocre no matter where you go.”"
"Because it was the first-ever Maccas to open in Australia, to commemorate its last day there was going to be a never-seen-before special. It read: ‘bring this flyer in and get a Big Mac for fifty cents’. Fifty cents! Whoo-hoooo!"
"2011, Angus Benson, Down South, in University of Technology, Sydney, The Life You Chose and That Chose You: The 25th UTS Writers' Anthology, unnumbered page, We slowed down just the once to pick up drive-thru from Maccas. I paid for my own food, but Mul and Seano reckoned they had no money."

Usage

Questions

What does maccas mean?: Alternative spelling of Macca's (“McDonald's”).

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