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語源 1

Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”)

名詞

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

派生語

• mack daddy

動詞

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
     

派生語

• mack down
• mack on
• mack out

語源 2

Clipping of mackintosh

名詞

mack (plural macks)

1. (British) A raincoat or mackintosh.
   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!‎:

     “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.”

語源 3

Blend of mast +‎ stack

名詞

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.