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▪ I. Merc, n.1 colloq.|mɜːk|
[Abbrev. of Mercedes, the brand name of a range of vehicles (esp. luxurious private cars) manufactured in Germany, originally by the Daimler motor company.]
A Mercedes vehicle, esp. a large saloon car.
1933M. Lincoln Oh! Definitely xv. 230 Geoffrey and I are going down in the ‘Merc’. 1961‘W. Haggard’ Arena xv. 127 ‘There's a Merc on our tail... Wave it by.’.. He waved the Mercedes on. 1974J. Wainwright Hard Hit 33 There is a pale blue Merc parked not far from the club entrance. 1989Truck & Driver Feb. 40/1 The 1729 gets a slightly restyled cab exterior, with greater use of plastics and sloping door windows to echo the smaller Mercs. 1995Observer 19 Mar. (Business section) 13/4 You would still be a couple of thousand pounds in pocket over three years with the budget Merc.
▪ II. Merc, n.2 U.S. colloq.
Brit. |məːk|, U.S. |mərk|
[Shortened ‹ Mercury, the proprietary name of a range of vehicles produced from 1938 by the Ford motor company.]
A motor vehicle of the Mercury make; (in quot. 1954) an engine for this make of car.
1954Amer. Mercury 29 93 Big Merc, a ‘bored and stroked’ Mercury engine. 1961C. Barbeau Ikon 99 It was a forty-eight Merc, a real beaut. 1972G. Lukas et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script) 1 (stage direct.) A beautiful decked and channeled, candy-apple red, tuck and rolled '53 Merc that glides into the drive-in. 1996B. Helgeland & C. Hanson L.A. Confidential (film script) 51 One of them owns a maroon Merc coupe. |