dack

See also: Dack and däck

English

Etymology

From daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæk/

• Audio (General Australian):

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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, politics) To cause political embarrassment in order to gain advantage over an opponent.
   • 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):

     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.

Translations

pull down someone's trousers

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扒褲子 / 扒裤子 (bā kùzi)

• Finnish: vetää jonkun housut alas
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