mack v.1
1. to work as a pimp.
![]() | Musa Pedestris (1896) 176: Fiddle, or fence, or mace, or mack; / Or moskeneer, or flash the drag. | ‘Villon’s Straight Tip’ in Farmer|
![]() | ‘Do Your Crying for the Living’ in Life (1976) 165: Your broad becomes lazy, trifling and slack, / And starts signifying about your not having a license to mack. | et al.|
![]() | Underground Dict. (1972). | |
![]() | Source Nov. 196: A vintage Tela track featuring the man who was born to mack. | |
![]() | Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 macking Definition: pimping for a living. Example: You ain’t mackin in my neighborhood, nigga! |
2. (US black) to swagger, to walk rhythmically.
![]() | in | Amer. Negro Stories 305: With no music till Lynn finishes ‘macking’ [...] across the stage [HDAS].|
![]() | Snakes (1971) 46: In he comes, doing that rhythmic walk, macking they called it. |
3. (US gay) of lesbians, to act in a masculine manner.
![]() | Hellhole 233: ‘Bulldykes’ or ‘stud broads’ [...] often ‘mac’ it, or dress in men’s clothes. | |
![]() | Cross of Lassitude 296: Don’t worry ... I’m macking tough when I’m pregnant! | |
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 132: masquerade (les sl) said of a lesbian who dresses up as a man. Syn: mack it (les sl, late ’60s). |
4. (US black, also mack down) to talk seductively, to flirt; spec. as a pimp to recruit a prostitute.
![]() | ‘SWAP Dict. Teen-age Sl’ in Ebony Mar. 98/2: Mack: to talk — as in ‘I was macking to that boss broad, but she stared hanging five on me’. | |
![]() | Radical Chic 101: I don’t want you women to be macking with the brothers if they ain’t tending to business. | |
![]() | Black Jargon in White America 72: macking v. to engage in conversation used by pimps to solicit women to work for them. | |
![]() | Black Players 35: The initial line a pimp uses in recruiting a girl is often referred to as Mack or Mack talk, for example, ‘He sure can mack ’em down in five minutes.’. | |
![]() | 🎵 I’m on a mission mackin hard as a hammer. | ‘Power’|
![]() | 🎵 I [...] get to mackin to this bitch named Sadie. | ‘Gin and Juice’|
![]() | 🎵 In a black ‘Lac mackin’ wit’ a bop in a fade. | ‘Choppin’ Blades’|
![]() | Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 straight mackin’ Definition: using all one’s hustling skills to get what he wants. Example: Look at Clarence, he be straight mackin’ my hoe, Sharone. | |
![]() | Adventures 97: Joe Kidd was a stick-up artist of the first degree. But tonight he was mackin’ [...] ‘This is my girl Maria’. |
5. to chat idly.
![]() | Vulture (1996) 88: The young whiteys were drinking beer and macking. |
6. (US black) to lie or exaggerate in order to deceive, exploit or influence someone.
![]() | Black Players 176: The only man badder than this bad, bad nigger turns out to be — the trickster, and a pimp-talkin’, mackin’ motherfucker at that! | |
![]() | Guardian Rev. 28 Apr. 12: Don’t mac me off like a two-bob. | |
![]() | 🎵 Get with me if she a money stacker, bitch around me man I’ma mack her. | ‘Gravy’
7. to have sexual intercourse.
![]() | College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Mack (verb) Mackin’ a hoe (phr.) Having sex with a slut. | |
![]() | Sl. Gloss. 🌐 mack: [...] to have sex, to be a person who is liked by women. |
8. to steal.
![]() | Deadmeat 438: Mackin an thuggin will be ya new way a life. | |
![]() | Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 mack v. 1. To steal or take advantage of. ‘Yo . . . free pizza? I’m going to mack on some of that!’. |
9. (US black) to be successful, usu. sexually.
![]() | U.C.L.A. Sl. 11: Mack ‘to be successful, esp. with having sex with women.’. | |
![]() | 🎵 But bitch niggas steal, and G niggas mack. | ‘Three Sixteens’
In phrases
(US) stylishly or flashily dressed or decorated; .
![]() | Und. and Prison Sl. | |
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 150: macked up Dressed up. | |
![]() | Sig Byrd’s Houston 85: Here, indeed, came a large man, macked out in sharp gray flannels, wearing a tan Homburg. | |
![]() | Drill a Crooked Hole 383: Mattie looked at the brown sport shirt and slacks he wore and asked what he was ‘all macked out’ for. | |
![]() | How to Talk American 20: Once dressed. you are ‘macked out’ or ‘pressed out.’. | |
![]() | Paul’s Boutique 82: Yauch had purchased this super macked-out, crazy ass car from the seventies. |
(US black/teen) to make a verbally forceful attempt to seduce a person, to flirt heavily.
![]() | Runnin’ Down Some Lines 3: That some fine stuff you mackin’ on. | |
![]() | Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 mack on v 1. to attempt to attract another person; HIT ON. (‘He was macking on that brunette that he met.’). | |
![]() | Campus Sl. Apr. | |
![]() | Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 45: [C]abdrivers honked for her attention, maybe macking on her, maybe dissing her. |