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🛍️ Removing a cover 😳 Pulling down trousers
debagging

debagging

9.9
Pulling down someone's trousers as a joke to embarrass them
  • noun
  • /dɪˈbæɡɪŋ/
  • Offensive
translation icon : bajada de pantalones
  • The students were punished for debagging a classmate during recess.

Examples

  • He became the target of debagging at the end-of-term party, much to his embarrassment.

  • He was a victim of debagging during the school assembly.

  • School rules strictly forbid any form of debagging or similar pranks.

  • The prank involved debagging the unsuspecting victim.

  • The students were punished for debagging a classmate during recess.

  • He became the target of debagging at the end-of-term party, much to his embarrassment.

  • School rules strictly forbid any form of debagging or similar pranks.

Synonyms

prank
vsdebagging
  • Informal
202 3.2

A playful trick done to make people laugh, often at another person

involves physical exposure by pulling down trousers to embarrass someone
mooning
vsdebagging
  • Offensive
1 9.1

The act of showing your bare bottom in public as a joke

involves exposing another person by pulling down their trousers to embarrass them

How Embarrassing

debagging
  • Offensive
9.9
stripping
17 4.1
exposure
88 3.9

Surface Forms

debagging singular
debaggings plural

Morphology

debagging = debag (semi-transparent) = de + bag + ing

Formally de- + bag + -ing is clear, but the sense 'pulling down trousers' is colloquial and not directly inferable from 'bag' for many learners.

Etymology

Debagging comes from de- which means 'remove' and bag which means 'a covering' or, in slang, 'trousers'. So debagging literally means 'taking off a covering', which is why it refers to the embarrassing prank of pulling someone's trousers down.