vac

Abbreviations.

• IPA^(key): /væk/

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vac (plural vacs)

1. (informal) Clipping of vacation.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 324:

     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.

2. (informal) Clipping of vacuum cleaner.
3. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

• (vacation) long vac
• (vacuum cleaner) minivac

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vaccing or vacking, simple past and past participle vacced or vacked)

1. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
   • 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star, page 332:

     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.

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

vac

1. cow

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

vac n (plural vacuri)

1. Obsolete form of veac.

• vac in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *vacca. Cognates include Finnish vatsa.

vac

1. belly