"Drac" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Drac
  1. Nickname for the fictional vampire Dracula. Categories (topical): Fictional characters Synonyms: Dracula, Count Dracula
    Sense id: en-Drac-en-name-hyW3-FnU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby \"Boris\" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:",
          "text": "Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring\nSeems he was troubled by just one thing\nOpened the lid and shook his fist\nAnd said, \"Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?\"\nIt's now the Mash\nIt's now the Monster Mash.",
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          "ref": "2000, Joe Kane, The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope, →ISBN, page 29:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "2004, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer and Other Tales of Extreme Recreation, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2017 October 29, Eric Feber, “Continue the scares past Halloween with TCC's production of \"Dracula\"”, in The Virginian-Pilot:",
          "text": "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.",
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