mac
Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
Noun abbreviation, alt of
- Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
- 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 - 1969, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, 0:04 from the...
- A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).
Origin
Clipping of mackintosh.
Forms
Derived
Noun Canada, US
- Clipping of macaroni.
- Is there any mac and cheese left?
- Who wrote "kick me" on my back? Who put a spider in my mac? - 1998, Dennis Doyle, edited by Alison Sage, Treasury of Children's Poetry, Shirley Said, page 177:
- Nothing tastes better to me than a big ol' bowl of super creamy, cheesy mac! - 2019, Gail Green, Marci Peschke, Lunch Recipe Queen (Kylie Jean), North Mankato, Minn.: Picture Window Books, Capstone, →ISBN, page 6:
Origin
Clipping of macaroni.