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player
English
Etymology
From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English ple?ere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), equivalent to play +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ple??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ple??(?)/
- Rhymes: -e??(?)
- Hyphenation: play?er
Noun
player (plural players)
- One that plays
- One who plays any game or sport.
- (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
- (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
- (gaming, video games) A gamer; a gamester.
- (gambling) A gambler.
- (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
- (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player.
- (computing) A software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as media player.
- One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
- A participant; one involved in something.
- He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
- (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
- 1977 March 24, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, “Dreams”, Warner Bros.:
- Thunder only happens when it’s rainin’ / Players only love you when they’re playin’ / Say women, they will come and they will go / When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know
- 1977 March 24, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, “Dreams”, Warner Bros.:
Synonyms
- (one who plays; (game) participant; athlete): laker
- (one who plays the field): See Thesaurus:libertine
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- baller
Anagrams
- Rapley, parley, pearly, prelay, replay
Middle English
Noun
player
- Alternative form of pleyer
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English player.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?plej.e?/
Noun
player m (plural players)
- (Brazil) (electronics) player (electronic device or software application that plays media)
- Synonyms: tocador, leitor
- (video games) player (a person or artificial intelligence that competes in a video game)
- Synonym: jogador
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:player.
player From the web:
- what player has the most rings
- what player is the movie safety about
- what player is all american based on
- what players are out for the steelers
- what players opted out for the patriots
- what player leads the nfl in turnovers
- what players did the lakers get
- what players are out for ohio state
mack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæk/
Etymology 1
Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”)
Noun
mack (plural macks)
- (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.
- She left with him; he must be a true mack.
Derived terms
- mack daddy
Verb
mack (third-person singular simple present macks, present participle macking, simple past and past participle macked)
- (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.
- Synonyms: hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out
- (slang) To seduce or flirt with.
- Synonyms: entice, pick up
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of mackintosh
Noun
mack (plural macks)
- (Britain) A raincoat or mackintosh.
Translations
Etymology 3
Blend of mast +? stack
Noun
mack (plural macks)
- 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.
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
mak +? -k
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mat?sk/
Noun
mack m
- Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)
Declension
Further reading
- mack in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
- mack in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
Swedish
Etymology
Since 1920 from the trademark MACK, the abbreviation for "Mathiasson, Andersson, Collin, Key", the owners of one of the first companies that opened gas stations in Sweden.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mak/
Noun
mack c
- (somewhat colloquial) gas station
- Synonyms: bensinmack, bensinstation
Declension
References
mack From the web:
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- what mackerel eat
- what mackerel taste like
- what mack means
- what mach is the speed of light
- what macbook do i have
- what mackerel fish look like
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