Maccas

See also: Macca's

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Maccas

1. (Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, slang) Alternative spelling of Macca's (“McDonald's”).
   • 1998, James Roy, Full Moon Racing‎^[1], page 25:

     “Then of course there′s Maccas food, which is uniformly mediocre no matter where you go.”

   • 2010, Anh Do, The Happiest Refugee‎^[2], page 103:

     Because it was the first-ever Maccas to open in Australia, to commemorate its last day there was going to be a never-seen-before special. It read: ‘bring this flyer in and get a Big Mac for fifty cents’.
     Fifty cents! Whoo-hoooo!

   • 2011, Angus Benson, Down South, in University of Technology, Sydney, The Life You Chose and That Chose You: The 25th UTS Writers' Anthology, unnumbered page,

     We slowed down just the once to pick up drive-thru from Maccas. I paid for my own food, but Mul and Seano reckoned they had no money.

2. (surfing, slang) "Macaronis", a surf break in Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia.