TAKKIES

World English Dictionary
tackies or takkies (ˈtækɪz) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
pl n , sing tacky
informal (South African) tennis shoes or plimsolls
 
[C20: probably from tacky1, with reference to their nonslip rubber soles]
 
takkies or takkies
 
pl n
 
[C20: probably from tacky1, with reference to their nonslip rubber soles]

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World English Dictionary
takkies (ˈtækɪz) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
pl n
informal (South African) a variant spelling of tackies

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Takkies is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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