Definitions

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  • noun South Africa Any light delivery vehicle, such as a pick-up truck.
  • noun South Africa A covered bowl, similar to a Tupperware container.

Etymologies

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Afrikaans: bak: bowl, dish.

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Examples

  • "The public has a great misconception that a bakkie is a safe alternative for transporting people instead of using a more suitable vehicle such as a minibus," said van der Walt.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Elizabeth Klaas from Maranatha Senior Citizens Club of Coldridge called on the government to scrap the 'bakkie' system of payment for the elderly.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Plus The HILUX and Navara/Hardbody drivers wont buy this Passenger "bakkie".

    unknown title 2009

  • Mebbee Guinness Piggeh cud gibs yu a bakkie on hims lidl bysykul; hims in teh Middlelands, so muss be yur naybor!

    Clyde’s reputation - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • When she told them that we needed a bakkie to take food to all the drop in centers, all of them quoted rates that were way too high for such a trip sometimes even a couple hundred rand over what she could spend.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2009

  • Yesterday, while we were delivering mealie meal to some drop in centers, Letebele the driver for Kodumela honked the horn and he and Rejoice rolled down their windows and hollered out of the bakkie.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2009

  • We drove out into the bush to feed said rhinos and upon stopping the farmer leapt onto the back of a bakkie (pickup) and shouted Rhino! .........

    Archive 2007-08-26 2007

  • After purchasing mealie meal, dish soap, tea, soup packets, mabela, palm oil, sugar, and matches, it was time to load up the hired bakkie.

    Yo, We Gotta Get The Food Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2009

  • We drove out into the bush to feed said rhinos and upon stopping the farmer leapt onto the back of a bakkie (pickup) and shouted Rhino! .........

    Get Another Presenter 2007

  • This week, Rejoice and I spent a good chunk of time in the work bakkie driving back and forth between Kodumela, the drop in centers, and Ofcolaco a small area with a dairy, butchery, store, post office, hardware store, petrol station and fruit and vegetable sellers who sell bags of big avos for 7 rand!

    Archive 2009-07-01 Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2009

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  • South African - utility, pick-up truck.

    June 15, 2010

  • "Or,

    "She goes to sleep on the seat taken from the broken-down bakkie as the husband listens to the radio for news of the uprising—""

    "apartment" by Rachel Zucker, in The Pedestrians

    December 27, 2014