vac

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væk/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

vac (plural vacs)

1. (informal) Clipping of vacation.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 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. Clipping of vacuum.
4. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

Derived terms

• (vacation): long vac, swot vac
• (vacuum cleaner): minivac
• (vacuum): vac bed, vac pack

Verb

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.

See also

Anagrams

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Huave

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

Noun

vac

1. cow

References

• 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

Romanian

Noun

vac n (plural vacuri)

1. Obsolete form of veac.

Declension

References

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

Veps

Etymology

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

Noun

vac

1. belly

Declension