vac

Etymology

Abbreviations.

noun

  1. (informal) Clipping of vacation.
    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. 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 324
  2. (informal) Clipping of vacuum cleaner.
  3. (informal) 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. 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star, page 332

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