dacks

Noun

daks pl (plural only)

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.2004, Bryce Courtenay, Brother Fish, published 2008, unnumbered page

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)

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