debagv.
/diːˈbaɡ/ slang.
transitive. To remove the trousers from (a person) as a punishment or for a joke.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person > divest of specific garments > trousers
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1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. vi At Oxford..we should be out of sympathy with him, even up to the point of debagging him.
1927 Daily Express 5 Oct. 3/3 If the Gun Room wishes to pay a tribute to one whom it loves, it debags the adored after dinner; if the Gun Room wishes to hurt the feelings of one it hates, it de-bags the hated one after dinner.
1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties 118 A number of us chased Sir Robert down the moonlit High Street in an endeavour to debag him.
Derivatives
deˈbagging n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > [noun] > removing specific garments > trousers
unbreeching1598
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1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. vii ‘We ought to debag him,’ he cried. Appleby was thereupon debagged; but as..he continued to walk about trouserless and dispense hospitality without any apparent loss of dignity, the debagging had to be written down a failure.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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v.1914- hand to a person on a plate
- hand to fist
- hand to hand
- hand to mouth
- hand to on a plate
- hand toil
- hand tool
- hand touch
- hand towel
- hand traverse
- hand tray
- hand tree
- hand turn in one's dinner pail
- hand under hand
- hand unto hand
- hand up
- hand vice
- hand vise
- hand wagon
- hand waving
- hand weapon
- hand weaver
- hand weaving
- hand weeding
- hand whim