vac

plural vacs

1. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of vacation (“extended period of time away from work or school”).

   From 1960 to 1963 I spent my terms at Cambridge University but was back home for the vacs[.]

   1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 45

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   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. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of vacuum cleaner.
3. abbreviationclippingClipping of vacuum.
4. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of vaccine.

present singular third person vacs · participle present vaccing · participle present vacking · participle past vacced · past vacced · participle past vacked · past vacked

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

1. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of volt of alternating current.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Velvet Acid Christ.