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"text": "Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A raincoat or mackintosh."
],
"links": [
[
"raincoat",
"raincoat"
],
[
"mackintosh",
"mackintosh"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British) A raincoat or mackintosh."
],
"tags": [
"British"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mæk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æk"
},
{
"homophone": "mac"
},
{
"homophone": "Mac"
},
{
"homophone": "Mack"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-mack.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/En-au-mack.ogg/En-au-mack.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/En-au-mack.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "A raincoat",
"word": "sadetakki"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "makintoš",
"sense": "A raincoat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "макинтош"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "plašč",
"sense": "A raincoat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "плащ"
}
],
"word": "mack"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English blends",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"Rhymes:English/æk",
"Rhymes:English/æk/1 syllable",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mast",
"3": "stack"
},
"expansion": "Blend of mast + stack",
"name": "blend"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Blend of mast + stack",
"forms": [
{
"form": "macks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mack (plural macks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mæk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æk"
},
{
"homophone": "mac"
},
{
"homophone": "Mac"
},
{
"homophone": "Mack"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-mack.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/En-au-mack.ogg/En-au-mack.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/En-au-mack.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:mack (naval architecture)"
],
"word": "mack"
}
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