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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 mackerel (“fish”).

名詞

mack (plural macks)

1. (prison slang) A (pouch or unit of) mackerel, used as food and currency in prison.
   • 2011, Chris Martenson, The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, page 42:

     "Macks" [...] don't divide very well, so they're not as useful for transactions that cost less than one “mack” or require a partial “mack.” So “macks” are reasonably good at being money, but they're not perfect.

   • 2016, Charles Wheelan, Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System:

     To make this more intuitive, let's revisit our prison mackerel example, just after the Red Cross has lavished fifty new pouches of mackerel on each inmate. […] We would expect prison prices in macks to rise roughly in proportion to the increase in the supply of mackerel induced by the humanitarian shipment. But what if there have been several stabbings with shanks made out of sharpened toothbrushes and the warden is threatening a lockdown? As a precaution against losing access to the canteen, many of the prisoners might decide to keep more mackerel under their beds. The speed at which macks circulated for trades would slow down as pouches piled up under bunks. A doubling of the supply of macks in the prison would not lead to a doubling of prices, since many of the new macks would be out of circulation rather than chasing prison goods.

語源 3

Clipping of mackintosh.

名詞

mack (plural macks)

1. (UK) 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 4

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.