daks
Trousers / pants.
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05. [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daks_Tournament#cite_ref-5)["Daks tournament victory for Peter Alliss"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PTxAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UVkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4059%2C6471515). _The Glasgow Herald_.
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Trousers / pants. "Trackie daks" = tracksuit pants.
"My daks are wet from the rain."
“[Jump to content](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAKS#bodyContent) We owe you an explanation.”
“05. [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daks_Tournament#cite_ref-5)["Daks tournament victory for Peter Alliss"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PTxAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UVkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4059%2C6471515). _The Glasgow Herald_.”
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Trousers or underwear.
Daks is Australian slang for trousers. "Trackie daks" = tracksuit pants. Not concerning, just regional vocabulary. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in. Most slang of this kind moves through TikTok and group chats, so seeing it in your child's vocabulary just means they are plugged into normal teen internet culture.
Daks is Australian English slang for trousers. The most common compound is "trackie daks" (tracksuit pants). Use in Australian contexts. Formal equivalents: "trousers," "pants" (American), "pants" (Australian/British casual). Common non-native mistake: confusing with the Australian brand Daks (men's apparel) or with related British slang. Read or listen to the word in context several times before trying it yourself; the right register is harder to learn than the dictionary meaning.
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- trackie daks89%
Australian slang for tracksuit bottoms — the comfortable, elasticated trousers you throw on for a jog, a lazy Sunday, or a quick trip to the shops when you simply cannot be bothered to find proper pants. 'Daks' is classic Australian slang for trousers, and 'trackie' is the abbreviated form of 'tracksuit', so trackie daks is a perfectly logical compound. It's one of those words that feels quintessentially Australian — relaxed, practical, and entirely without pretension.
- trackie daks84%
(AU) Tracksuit bottoms; tracksuit trousers/pants.
- underdaks74%
Australian and New Zealand slang for underpants — the underwear you're wearing under your 'daks' (trousers). While 'daks' is itself Aussie slang for pants or trousers, 'underdaks' logically extends this to mean the garment underneath them. It's unpretentious, cheerful, and quintessentially antipodean — exactly the kind of word that makes Australian English so much fun. Used freely in casual conversation and carries zero embarrassment factor.
- dack71%
(Australia, informal) To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.