variants or mack
British
as in raincoat
a coat made of water-resistant material I'm glad the little nipper remembered his mac today, because it's supposed to rain

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Noun
  • So many raincoats don’t, but this one passed with flying colors through the rapids, airing out almost instantly.
    Anna Fiorentino, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The state’s newest theory is that Zeigler wore a raincoat while shooting his wife and mother-in-law (who was shot with two different guns) and struggling with his father-in-law — despite the customer having the father-in-law’s blood soaked into his pants.
    Gail Hollenbeck, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Another mackintosh was hardly recognizable as clothing.
    Sam Kean, Science | AAAS, 2 July 2021
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“Mac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mac. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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