mac

noun
🔊/mæk/
🔊/mæk/
(also mack)
(also old-fashioned mackintosh)
(all British English)
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  1. a coat made of material that keeps you dry in the rain雨衣;雨披
    • He was standing in the pouring rain with his mac on.他穿着雨衣站在瓢泼大雨中。
    see also Big Mac™, whisky macTopics Clothes and Fashionc2
    Word Originearly 20th cent.: abbreviation.

Mac

noun
🔊/mæk/
🔊/mæk/
[singular] (North American English, informal)
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  1. used to address a man whose name you do not know(用于称呼不知姓名的男子)老兄,老弟,伙计,哥们儿
    Word Originearly 17th cent. (originally a form of address to a Scotsman): from Mac-, a patronymic prefix in many Scots and Irish surnames.