What is "bakkie"

Usage examples of "bakkie".

ARRIVED shortly after four, driving up in his blue garage bakkie with tlokweng road speedy motors painted on the side.

He has an old pickup down there, a bakkie, which he kept for years and years.

He was relieved when they left although regretful as he watched the bakkie pull away.

However, there was now the bakkie in which to take Sarah to the supermarket.

It was a great pleasure to cruise in the bakkie through avenues of jacarandas but the journey was not long enough.

For a few moments the gleam from his polished belt, the red shine from the bakkie and the bright prison wire behind lent to the scene the detailed unreality of film.

His first thought was that someone was trying to steal the bakkie and that he had left the truncheon indoors.

I had to keep nipping outside to see if the bakkie was okay and then it occurred to me to get a couple of them to sit in it and guard it, with me keeping them in drink.

As Sarah was getting into the bakkie Patrick shook hands with him again, no less awkwardly than before.

The bakkie was high enough to escape trouble but even so it was difficult to reach because of the surge of foaming brown water.

Once, as he nosed the bakkie across a junction where the robots had failed, they saw a motorbike on its side, the front wheel still spinning, and in the road a shoe.

It was in the nearside rear wheel and he knew it when he felt the bakkie drag heavily on a bend.

They jumped out of the lorry and stood chatting excitedly round the bakkie whilst he got a spanner from his cab.

When he was ready they lifted the back of the bakkie and the wheel was changed.

After turning the bakkie clumsily, because it hurt to twist in his seat, he pulled up behind her.