roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

The question is about where the word came from, and the given answer is included in their list of possibilism, albeit the last one.

Dacking is an Australian term?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsing

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dack

EtymologyFrom daks, Australian slang for trousers or underwear.

https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/d
dak

To pull down or remove the trousers from (a person) as a joke or punishment. Dak derives from another Australian term daks meaning ‘a pair of trousers’. The term is first recorded from the early 1990s but is probably much older than that. For a more detailed discussion of dak see our Word of the Month article from July 2009.

1994 Age (Melbourne) 24 July: We played footy together, but his recognition was going on to play for Footscray; I was the little fella so mine was getting dakked every pie night.

2007 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 4 October: The former Fitzroy and Brisbane footballer has ‘Fitzroy RIP 1996’ tattooed on his right buttock. His family didn’t know about it until he was dacked during a game this year.