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mac

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //mæk//

A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).

noun

  1. 1

    slangA person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).

  2. 2

    Variant of mackintoshClipping 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

Etymology

Clipping of mackintosh.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of macaronislangClipping of macaroni.

    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!

Etymology

Clipping of macaroni.

Forms

plural
macs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).