dack
verb/dæk/
Etymology From daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.
2
Government, Politics Australia To cause political embarrassment in order to gain advantage over an opponent.
- 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.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):