daks

English

Etymology 1

From DAKS (“a trademark”), a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly; said to be short for Dad’s slacks.

Alternative forms

• dacks

Noun

daks pl (plural only)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Trousers or underwear.
   • 2004, Bryce Courtenay, Brother Fish, 2008, unnumbered page,

     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.

   • 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.

   • 2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest^[1], page 43:

     “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?”

   • 2011, Rory Barnes, Space Junk^[2], page 14:

     They were still there the next morning, flapping in the breeze. Filthy, grease stained pair of daks. The crotch half rotted away.

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Noun

daks

1. plural of dak

Anagrams

• DASK, S.Dak.