abbrev. (chiefly in Univ. colloquial use) of VACATION sb.
1709. Brit. Apollo, No. 55. 3/2. It was very hard in the Vac. without Gains.
1864. Bp. Creighton, in Mrs. Creighton, Life (1904), I. ii. 11. I shall have all the rest of the Vac. to perpend and meditate on that point.
1877. M. Legrand, Camb. Freshm., 365. When I was a boy at Harrow, I always hated going home for the ‘vacs.’
1906. Catholic Weekly, 18 May, 7. Others lectured to working men in the vacs.
