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daks¹

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From DAKS, trademark for a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly created by Alexander Simpson and his business partner Dudley Beck. Blend of dad + slacks, named after Simeon Simpson, the founder of the company and the American word for informal trousers.

noun dacks

  1. Australia, New Zealand, informal, plural, plural only Trousers or underwear. The usual stuff – sports jacket, a couple of pairs of daks, one brown and one grey, three pairs of socks, though I only had need for one sock in the meantime, two white shirts and a decent pair of shoes, though again, only one shoe being useful in my present predicament.

daks²

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

noun

  1. plural plural of dak

Daks³

proper noun

  1. plural plural of Dak

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@misc{daks_2026,
  title = {daks},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/daks},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}