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English
Etymology
From master + card.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæstə(ɹ)ˌkɑː(ɹ)d/, /ˈmɑːstə(ɹ)ˌkɑː(ɹ)d/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Noun
Mastercard (plural Mastercards)
- (banking) A credit card issued by the credit card company Mastercard.
- Synonyms: Master, MC
2019, James Harrison Cohen, Confessions of an Old Man: Gone Are the Days: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:And when they got to the funeral, well, Roger and Buddy were running around to various banks trying to raise ten thousand dollars from their Mastercards, and Jamie thought he might have to help them out, and nobody ever knew that Jamie was very poor, and Jamie always put up a good front, and Jamie would have helped them bury their mother too.
2020, Jim Ross, Paul O’Brien, Under the Black Hat: My Life in the WWE and Beyond, New York, N.Y.: Tiller Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc., published 2021, →ISBN, page 7:“Well,” I began, “one of the talent bought his girlfriend fake …”
“Fake what?”
“Tits,” I said.
That got the boss’s attention; he paused. “Why are someone else’s fake titties an issue for you?” he asked.
“’Cause the idiot paid for them with his Mastercard.”
Vince was still puzzled. “And?”
“Well, the Mastercard bill is paid by the idiot’s wife.”
“Goddamn.” Vince chuckled. “You don’t put things of that nature on a card.”
2021, Victoria Nelson, Neighbor George, London: Strange Attractor Press/Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN:He paid for everything with his Mastercard and Betsy was just starting to warn me about this when a background disturbance gradually got too loud to ignore.
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