drop one’s daks

Definition

Slang

• verb to take off one’s trousers. An Australianism (Daks is a trademark for a brand of casual slacks especially popular in the early 1960s in Britain and Australia). A catchphrase from The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, the cartoon strip published in Private Eye magazine in the late 1960s was ‘drop your daks and say the magic word’.

Nearby Definitions of “drop one’s daks”

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