Meanings
daks1
alternative dacks
- AustraliaNew Zealandinformalpluralplural onlyTrousers or underwear.
2008, Dave Sabben, The Scorpion Dance, Denny Neave, Soldiers' Tale: A Collection of True Stories from Aussie Soldiers, page 144, But the pain′s still there, so I begin to drop my daks to investigate the territory.
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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“Look, I'll pull the bloody leeches off you. Okay? They won't hurt you. They′s only trying to suck your bloody blood. Why waste a pair of clean dacks?”
2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 43They were still there the next morning, flapping in the breeze. Filthy, grease stained pair of daks. The crotch half rotted away.
2011, Rory Barnes, Space Junk, page 14
daks2
- pluralplural of dak
Daks3
- pluralplural of Dak
Origin
daks · noun
From DAKS, trademark for a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly created by Alexander Simpson and his business partner Dudley Beck.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.
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