mack

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

Short for mackerel (“pimp”), after French maquereau (“pimp, ponce”), from Middle French makerele (“brothel madam”), from Middle Dutch makelare ("broker, traficker"; > Dutch makelaar (“mediator, agent”)), from Middle Dutch makelen (“to traffick”), frequentative of maken (“to do, make”). More at make.

mack (plural macks)

1. (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.

   She left with him; he must be a true mack.

• mack daddy

mack (third-person singular simple present macks, present participle macking, simple past and past participle macked)

1. (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.
2. (slang) To seduce or flirt with.

Clipping of mackintosh

mack (plural macks)

1. (Britain) 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.”

mak +‎ -k

• IPA^(key): /mat͡sk/

mack m

1. Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)

Since 1920 from the trademark MACK, the abbreviation for "Mathiasson, Andersson, Collin, Key", the owners of one of the first companies that opened gas stations in Sweden.

• IPA^(key): /mak/

mack c

1. (somewhat colloquial) gas station

   Synonyms: bensinmack, bensinstation

   Vi åker till macken och tankar lite.

   Let's go down to the gas station and get some gas.