"pac-a-mac" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a brand name coined in 1949 as a shortening of \"pack a macintosh\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pac-a-macs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pac-a-mac (plural pac-a-macs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Eric Goulden, A Dysfunctional Success: The Wreckless Eric Manual, page 20",
          "text": "And there she was - wearing a dark blue pac-a-mac over a blue brushed-nylon nightdress, topped off with a hairnet. It was as though Death itself had just walked into the kitchen. She always wore the pac-a-mac because a dressing gown would have taken up valuable space in her suitcase.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kate Harrison, Brown Owl's Guide To Life",
          "text": "It was raining hard when the girls came back into the Brownie circle for vespers, and the gaggle of mums gathered in the Drill Hall porch, sweating in their pac-a-macs and listening to the water swishing down the guttering.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Tom Chesshyre, From Source to Sea",
          "text": "I am the only customer in the Perch in possession of a backpack and wearing a pac-a-mac, which I've yet to take off despite the sun coming out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lightweight rainjacket that can be compressed into a small pocket-sized bag."
      ],
      "id": "en-pac-a-mac-en-noun-t7RRVBP3",
      "links": [
        [
          "lightweight",
          "lightweight"
        ],
        [
          "rainjacket",
          "rainjacket"
        ],
        [
          "compress",
          "compress"
        ],
        [
          "pocket-sized",
          "pocket-sized"
        ],
        [
          "bag",
          "bag"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) A lightweight rainjacket that can be compressed into a small pocket-sized bag."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pac-a-mac"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a brand name coined in 1949 as a shortening of \"pack a macintosh\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pac-a-macs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pac-a-mac (plural pac-a-macs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Eric Goulden, A Dysfunctional Success: The Wreckless Eric Manual, page 20",
          "text": "And there she was - wearing a dark blue pac-a-mac over a blue brushed-nylon nightdress, topped off with a hairnet. It was as though Death itself had just walked into the kitchen. She always wore the pac-a-mac because a dressing gown would have taken up valuable space in her suitcase.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kate Harrison, Brown Owl's Guide To Life",
          "text": "It was raining hard when the girls came back into the Brownie circle for vespers, and the gaggle of mums gathered in the Drill Hall porch, sweating in their pac-a-macs and listening to the water swishing down the guttering.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Tom Chesshyre, From Source to Sea",
          "text": "I am the only customer in the Perch in possession of a backpack and wearing a pac-a-mac, which I've yet to take off despite the sun coming out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lightweight rainjacket that can be compressed into a small pocket-sized bag."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lightweight",
          "lightweight"
        ],
        [
          "rainjacket",
          "rainjacket"
        ],
        [
          "compress",
          "compress"
        ],
        [
          "pocket-sized",
          "pocket-sized"
        ],
        [
          "bag",
          "bag"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) A lightweight rainjacket that can be compressed into a small pocket-sized bag."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pac-a-mac"
}