vac

[ vak ]

noun

, Informal.

1. vacuum cleaner.

vac

/ væk /

noun

1. informal.
   short for vacation

Word History and Origins

Origin of vac¹

By shortening

Example Sentences

There is a general feeling that you are no nuisance, and had better stop till the end of the vac.

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It obviously hadn't been a nuclear blow-up of any proportions, or he wouldn't be here now, zipping up the front of his vac suit.

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Nobody would put on a vac suit and run away like that if he was in his right mind.

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But on the moon nobody responds to an emergency call without a vac suit.

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There was plenty of air still in this corridor, and there was apparently little likelihood of his needing his vac suit.

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