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▪ I. † mack n.1 Obs.
Some game at cards.
1548Forrest Pleas. Poesye 221 At ale howse too sitt, at mack or at mall. 1592Chettle Kind-Harts Dr. F, Macke, Maw, Ruffe, Noddy, and Trumpe. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlvi. 217 Hence arrant Preachers, humming out a common-place or two, With bad, ill, naught, Pope, pots, play, mack, keeping of fowle adoe.
▪ II. mack, n.2 Obs. exc. dial.|mæk|
Also 6 meke, 9 macks.
[An unmeaning word, suggested either by ‘by Mary’ or by ‘by the Mass’ (see mass n.1). Cf. ‘by the matte’ (Udall Roister D. iv. vii. 118), also mackins and dial. megs.]
In the phrase by (the) mack! (also simply mack! as quasi-int.), an exclamatory form of asseveration.
c1560Misogonus iv. i. 55 (Brandl) Bith meke, Isbell. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iii. iv, Humour? mack, I thinke it be so, indeed. 1599Sir John Oldcastle (1600) C 4, Now by the macke, a prettie wench indeed. 1638Whiting Hist. Albino 130 Is not my daughter Maudge as fine a mayd, And yet, by mack, you see she troules the bowle. 1664Cotton Scarron. i. 105 By the Mack.
▪ III. mack, n.4 slang.|mæk|
Also mac.
[Short for mackerel2.]
A pander.
1887W. E. Henley Villon's Straight Tip ii. (F.), Fiddle, or fence, or mace, or mack. 1894Stead If Christ came to Chicago 372 The procurers, the souteneurs and the ‘macs’. 1926Maines & Grant Wise-Crack Dict. 11/1 Mac, man who lives off the earnings of a woman. 1931G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 125 Mac, a pander; a lover or associate of lewd women. No doubt from the French word for this class, ‘maqereau’.., although the shorter word has been in use in America for years. 1950Blesh & Janis They all played Ragtime (1958) ii. 39 The dapper, foppish ‘macks’..in their Stetsons, box-back coats, and St. Louis ‘flat’ shoes got their gambling stakes from the girls. 1972T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 243 ‘Pimp’, or ‘mack man’..a person of considerable status in the street hierarchy, who, by his lively and persuasive rapping (‘macking’ is also used in this context), has acquired a stable of girls to hustle for him and give him money. 1973Washington Post 21 Apr. D 7/2 Now comes ‘The Mack’, a movie about the rise and fall of a sweet pimp named Goldie.
▪ IV. mack, n.5|mæk|
Also mac.
A common abbrev. of mackintosh 2 and 3.
1901‘R. Andom’ Troddles & Us & Others xxi. 245 It rained pretty steadily... Murray and Wilks, having left their ‘macs.’ behind, were constrained to spend one solid day loafing about the..inn premises. 1902Captain VII. 468/1 Who said you might wear my mackintosh?.. Suppose you give it up... Buck up. It looks like rain... Mack up, please. I want it. 1917A. G. Empey From Fire Step 170 In front of the door stood an officer in a mack (macintosh). 1923Daily Mail 12 Feb. 12 (Advt.), Girls' Mack Capes with Hoods... All guaranteed waterproof. 1929Galsworthy Roof iii. 54 ‘Have we got to dress?’.. ‘No; bung on your mack and shoes.’ 1963Times 15 May 14/6 Small knots of mac-clad farmers. 1973A. Behrend Samarai Affair viii. 85 Richardson slipped on his mack and went round to India buildings. 1974D. Winsor Death Convention ii. 10, I had dug my hands in my mac pockets.
▪ V. † mack, a.
Also 5 make, 5, 9 mak.
[a. ON. mak-r (found in compar. only). Cf. mackly adv., and dial. mackerly, mackly adj., mack-like, macky seemly, etc.]
a. Apt, convenient.
b. Neat, tidy.
c1440Promp. Parv. 321/1 Make, or fyt, and mete (MS. K. mak, fyt, or esy), aptus, conveniens. 1825–80Jamieson, Mack, mak, neat, tidy; Roxb.
▪ VI. mack
see black-mack.
▪ VII. mack
obs. f. make.
▪ VIII. mack, v. U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage).
Brit. |mæk|, U.S. |mæk|
Forms: 18– mack, 19– mac
[Probably ‹mack n.3, although attested slightly earlier.]
1. intr. To be or act as a pimp.
1887W. E. Henley Villon's Straight Tip 10 Fiddle, or fence, or mace, or mack. 1971Who took Weight? 160, I was sho'nuff macking. I had nine..whores. 1976in D. Wepman et al. The Life 165 Your broad..starts signifying about your not having a license to mack.
2.
a. intr. Usually of a man (originally a pimp): to speak flatteringly or deceptively, esp. in order to impress or seduce; (also) to make a sexual advance, to flirt. Also with on.
1969 macking n. at Derivatives1970T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing Flak Catchers 101, I don't want you women to be macking with the brothers if they ain't tending to business. 1989‘Too Short’ Freaky Tales (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 347 Mack on baby like an ice-cold vet Everything she had is what I get. 1997Touch May 22/2 That's enough about Elo..who I met macking at the party.
b. trans. Usually of a man: to seduce, make a sexual advance to, flirt with.
J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 493 records an oral use from 1974 at the University of Tennessee.
1993P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang II. 57 He's trying to mac her. 1995URB Dec. 112/1 SF/Oakland ain't just about mobbin' in your ride, mackin' hoes and getting ya scrilla on. 2001Jet 19 Mar. 60/1 Although much of the action centers around..the..basketball court and the bedroom, the film is about more than just a bunch of guys shooting hoops and macking women.
Derivatives. macking n.
1969T. Kochmann in Trans-action Feb. 27/1 The pimp..by his lively and persuasive rapping (‘*macking’ is also used in this context) has acquired a stable of girls. 1998Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 2 July f42 A place to potentially meet a mate—could it possibly still exist? By the looks of the mingling and the macking occurring inside, it surely does. |