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McCarthy Standard Time

The time difference from your chosen time zone (BST, EST, ECT. etc) to the one being used by a terrible time keeper. Usually meaning they will vastly underestimate the time they need to complete a task or overestimate how fast they can travel somewhere, making them the constant reason for delays in planning and execution of group activities.
Cal: I’ll be home in 10 minutes and load up a playlist as soon as i get online. So… gimme 20 minutes and we’re set.

Dan: Is that GMT or McCarthy Standard Time?

Jack: See you in an hour Cal. 🙄
by x427 January 9, 2023
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McCarthy

Pulled a McCarthy

Sounds Like- muh·kaar·thee
The political practice of buying one's political position by marginalizing opponents and forcing the vote until the aggressor gets what they want, regardless of the opposition they are meet with. This is kind of act is a quintessential example of an entitled, out of touch elitist.
Did you see how the Speaker of the House Pulled A McCarthy; it only took 4 re-votes to legitimately steel the third most powerful position in U.S. politics.
by jLingg January 12, 2023
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Mccamy

A Mccamy is a boy who has some learning disabilities. He is shy but really nice when you get to know him.
Mccamy is bad at math but he is nice!
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McCalories

This pertains to the amount of calories there are in a McDonald's meal.
Person 1: OMG! There's so many Mccalories in this quarter pounder.

Person 2: Have you not tried using McDonald's McCalories counter?
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macaylia

a girl/boy who is shy,quiet,and non sociable. has many friends but do not talk to anyone but one person,has a nice personality but seems mean but goofy at the same time.
"you are acting like a macaylia right now"
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McCall's

a monthly American women's magazine, published by the McCall Corporation, that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s.
McCall's published fiction by such well-known authors as Alice Adams, Lester Atwell, Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O'Brien, Tony J. Caridi, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut.
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McCall's

a monthly American women's magazine, published by the McCall Corporation, that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century
Despite the name changes, for many years information on McCall's patterns filled an average of 20 percent of the magazine's pages
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