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| has gloss | eng: Debagging (the name used in Britain, especially historically at the University of Oxford and Cambridge in England, and derived from "Oxford bags", a loose-fitting baggy form of trousers), or pantsing (the American word for the act), also known as grogging, shanking, sharking, dekecking, kecking or drooping, is the pulling down of a persons trousers against their wishes, typically as a practical joke. The most common method is to sneak up behind the intended victim, grab the trousers waistband, and apply a quick downward tug before the victim is aware of the debaggers presence. Sometimes, the trousers are completely removed, and perhaps left somewhere embarrassing to reclaim. In Scotland the process is often known as breeking from the word "breeks" meaning trousers. In Australia the act is known as dacking from the nickname for tracksuit bottoms, "tracky-dacks" and in New Zealand the act is known as giving someone a down trow; in Ireland jocking (Although this mainly refers to the act of placing one's foot on the trousers of the debbaged and pushing them, causing them to fall and for their trousers and maybe underpants to be removed). |
| lexicalization | eng: debagging |
| instance of | c/Practical jokes |
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