Daks
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Trousers or underwear. Australia, New-Zealand, informal, plural, plural-only
"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."
- 2 plural of dak form-of, plural
- 1 plural of Dak form-of, plural
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From DAKS, trademark for a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly created by Alexander Simpson and his business partner Dudley Beck.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.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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