dack

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/dæk/

verb

To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.

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Meanings

dack1

verbdack (third-person singular simple present dacks, present participle dacking, simple past and past participle dacked)

present singular third person dacks · participle present dacking · participle past dacked · past dacked

  1. AustraliainformalTo pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.
  2. AustraliagovernmentTo 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)

Dack2

proper nounDack (countable and uncountable, plural Dacks)

plural Dacks

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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
pants

Origin

dack · verb

From daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.

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Dack · proper noun

* 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”).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 扒褲子 /扒裤子
  • 扒褲子 /扒裤子 (bā kùzi)pull down someone's trousers
Finnish vetää jonkun housut alas
  • vetää jonkun housut alaspull down someone's trousers
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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