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vac
/væk/
noun 5verb 1name 1
Collocations
1ADJ.
long
Definitions
noun
1
Clipping of vacation (“extended period of time away from work or school”).
It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.
From 1960 to 1963 I spent my terms at Cambridge University but was back home for the vacs[.]
2
Clipping of vacuum cleaner.
3
Clipping of vacuum.
4
Clipping of vaccine.
verb
1
To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.
noun
1
Initialism of volt of alternating current.
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Synonyms
noun — informal term for vacation
- vacay
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.
Wiktionary02
From 1960 to 1963 I spent my terms at Cambridge University but was back home for the vacs[.]
Wiktionary03
I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.
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