drac

plural dracs

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of draco (“short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle”).

plural dracs

1. A shape-shifting water sprite, imp, or malevolent demon that haunts rivers.

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   She related things equally wonderful, such as that the Dracs lived on people they had carried off, and turned themselves into human forms; and that one day, when the Drac gave her an eel-pasty to eat, she happened to put her fingers, that were greasy with the fat, to one of her eyes and one side of her face, and she immediately be came endowed with most clear and distinct vision under the water.

   1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 282

1. Nickname for the fictional vampire Dracula.

   […] Roger Corman's 1993 attempted Bram Stoker's Dracula rip-off, Dracula Rising (New Horizons), which is to Coppola's vampire epic what Drac's reflection is to the count himself.

   2000, Joe Kane, The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope, →ISBN, page 29

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   Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring Seems he was troubled by just one thing Opened the lid and shook his fist And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" It's now the Mash It's now the Monster Mash.

   1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers

   Still, the Count graciously agrees to […] do a brief roll call of his manifold Dracula tattoos. "That's a Drac, that's a Drac, that's a Drac, that's a demon, and that's for me," he says of the tattoo on his right arm that reads donna. The full-length Dracula on his back, alas, is but one third complete.

   2004, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer and Other Tales of Extreme Recreation, →ISBN

   It was Irish actor, playwright and director Deane (1880-1958) who, upon adapting Stoker’s novel for the stage, envisioned ol’ Drac as a tuxedo-and-cape-wearing high-society maven that was, later, perfected by Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi.

   2017 October 29, Eric Feber, “Continue the scares past Halloween with TCC's production of "Dracula"”, in The Virginian-Pilot

   Synonyms: Dracula, Count Dracula