See dack on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.", "forms": [ { "form": "dacks", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "dacking", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "dacked", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "dacked", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "dack (third-person singular simple present dacks, present participle dacking, simple past and past participle dacked)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Australian English", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke." ], "id": "en-dack-en-verb-XNgCnzx1", "links": [ [ "pull down", "pull down" ], [ "trousers", "trousers" ], [ "practical joke", "practical joke" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia, informal) To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke." ], "tags": [ "Australia", "informal" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "95 5", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "bā kùzi", "sense": "pull down someone's trousers", "word": "扒褲子 /扒裤子" }, { "_dis1": "95 5", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "pull down someone's trousers", "word": "vetää jonkun housut alas" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Australian English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Politics", "orig": "en:Politics", "parents": [ "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "27 73", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "27 73", "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "26 74", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 77", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 77", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 77", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "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):", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To cause political embarrassment in order to gain advantage over an opponent." ], "id": "en-dack-en-verb-IjS0LC9m", "links": [ [ "politics", "politics" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia, politics) To cause political embarrassment in order to gain advantage over an opponent." ], "tags": [ "Australia" ], "topics": [ "government", "politics" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/dæk/" }, { "audio": "EN-AU ck1 dack.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c9/EN-AU_ck1_dack.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_dack.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/EN-AU_ck1_dack.ogg" } ], "word": "dack" }
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