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dack¹

  • /dæk/

Where it comes from

From daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.

verb dacks · dacking · dacked

  1. Australia, informal To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.
  2. Australia To cause political embarrassment in order to gain advantage over an opponent. We have it because way back in 1918, Billy Hughes — the Labor defector and leader of the Nationalist Party, from whose remains Robert Menzies was ultimately to build the Liberal Party — introduced preferential voting specifically in order to dack the Labor party.

Dack²

Where it comes from

* As an English surname, from the Old English personal name *Dæcca, also found in the first element of the town Dagenham.

* As a Dutch surname for a roofer, from a variant of dak (“roof”).

proper noun Dacks

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A former township in the Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada, now part of Charlton and Dack.

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verb pull down someone's trousers

中文扒褲子 /扒裤子 bā kùzi

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@misc{dack_2026,
  title = {dack},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dack},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}