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dack

/dæk/

dack verb: to pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.

Verb

dack (third-person singular simple present dacks, present participle dacking, simple past and past participle 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.2024 December 4, Annabel Crabb, “Liberal MP Paul Fletcher sees red over teals, but look deeper and there's more at play”, in ABC News (Australia)

Proper noun capitalized: Dack

Dack (countable and uncountable, plural Dacks)

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

Forms of dack

Verb
third-person singular presentdacks
present participledacking
past participledacked
pastdacked
Proper noun
pluralDacks

Origin of dack

From daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.

* 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”).

Phrases with dack

Questions about dack

What does dack mean?
Dack means to pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.
What part of speech is dack?
Dack can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dack?
Dack is pronounced /dæk/.
What is the past tense of dack?
The past tense of dack is dacked.

Words near dack in the dictionary

  1. dacinostat
  2. dacisteine
  3. dacite
  4. dacites
  5. dacitic
  6. dack
  7. dacked
  8. dacking
  9. dackle
  10. dackled
  11. dackles

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