takkie

plural takkies

1. South Africain pluralAn athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker.

   […]stood on it with one takkie that had no shoelace.

   2006, Byron Loker, New Swell, iBhuku.com, →ISBN, page 35

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   One day in comes Jannie Hofmeyr to my shop, and he's wanting a pair of takkies to play tennis you know, and William, my son, he goes and serves him.

   1948, Tom Macdonald, Jan Hofmeyr: heir to Smuts, Hurst & Blackett, page 119

   Net face veils often replaced the orthodox headgear, and ‘takkies’ (canvas boots) or ‘fellies’ (veldshoen^([sic])) the regulation combat boots.

   1986, Peter Abbott, Philip Botham, Modern African Wars (1): Rhodesia 1965–80, Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, page 43

   […]she kept getting her foot stuck in it until her right takkie was squishing on the kitchen floor.

   2001, Gail Evans, Time Trials, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 11