debag

[ dee-bag ]

verb (used with object)

, British Slang.

, de·bagged, de·bag·ging.

1. to depants.
2. to debunk.

debag

/ diːˈbæɡ /

verb

1. slang.
   tr to remove the trousers from (someone) by force

Word History and Origins

Origin of debag¹

First recorded in 1910–15; de- + bag

Example Sentences

In 1925 the New York Times reported that at least one teacher even required students who wore the pants to debag themselves right in the classroom.

From Slate

When the character Lonsdale is overcome with resentment for Etonian and fellow Oxford student Appleby, he cries, “We ought to debag him!”

From Slate

The American Oxonian, the magazine of American Rhodes scholars studying at Oxford, lamented that the university had no single yell “except, of course, the distressing cry of ‘Debag him!’

From Slate

"We ought to debag him!" he cried.

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