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MacBook

noun

Etymology

A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh + notebook.

  1. inherited from *bōks✻
  2. inherited from *bōk✻
  3. inherited from bōc
  4. inherited from bok
  5. compounded as notebook — “note + book”
  6. compounded as macbook — “Macintosh + notebook”

Definitions

  1. A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.

    • Hooo, boy! Sometimes I just can't let things rest. I have the new MacBook Pro.
    • The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed.
    • In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook.

  2. Nonstandard form of MacBook.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for MacBook. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA