vacnoun
uk/væk/us/væk/vac noun (PERIOD)
[ C ] UK informal for vacation :
Have you managed to get a job for the long (= summer) vac?
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Not going to school
- absentee
- exclude
- exclusion
- flunk
- flunk out
- gap year
- hooky
- skive
- study holiday
- suspend
- suspension
- truancy
- truant
- truant officer
- vacation
vac noun (EQUIPMENT)
[ C ] informal for vacuum noun
[ S ] UK informal for an act of cleaning something with a vacuum cleaner:
Could you give the bedrooms a vac?
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Equipment used for cleaning
- bath towel
- broom
- broomstick
- carpet sweeper
- chamois
- facecloth
- feather duster
- flannel
- floor cloth
- Hoover
- household goods
- J-cloth
- pressure washer
- rag
- scrubbing brush
- squeegee
- squeegee mop
- sweeper
- towelette
- washcloth
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Cleaning & tidying places & things
vacverb [ I or T ]
uk/væk/us/væk/-cc- UK informalto clean something with a vacuum cleaner:
I've nearly finished the cleaning, I just need to vac.
Have you vacced the carpet?
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Cleaning & tidying places & things
- a lick and a promise idiom
- adjust
- airing
- bed
- brush
- char
- clean (sb/sth) up
- freshen (sb/sth) up
- going-over
- Hoover
- housekeeping
- housework
- shampoo
- spit
- straighten
- straighten sth out
- straighten sth up
- tidy sth away
- vacuum
- valet
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