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In some senses, mac is marked as derogatory, offensive, slang, informal, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
Standing in the dock at Southampton / Trying to get to Holland or France / The man in the mac said / You've got to go back / You know they didn't even give us a chance
A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).
noun
Clipping of macaroni.
Is there any mac and cheese left?
Who wrote "kick me" on my back? Who put a spider in my mac?
noun
Used to address a man whose name is unknown.
Have you got a light, Mac?
TIME was, the stereotypical New York cabdriver was a gabby if slightly gruff man with a Brooklyn accent who knew every pothole in every street in every borough and greeted people with the world-weary query, "Where to, Mac?"