Pakat is Singlish — Singapore's distinctive English creole — for conspiring, colluding, or scheming together.
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Musara Pakat telt 222 inwoners (volkstelling 2010).
Pakat is Singlish — Singapore's distinctive English creole — for conspiring, colluding, or scheming together. If you pakat with someone, you're coordinating behind the scenes, usually to get an advantage or pull something off that might not be entirely above board. It's used casually for everything from harmless coordination ('let's pakat and surprise her') to genuinely shady collusion. The word is common in everyday Singapore speech and pop culture.
Pakat is Malay/Indonesian/Filipino for "agreed" or "in cahoots," depending on context. Not concerning, just regional vocabulary. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in. Most slang of this kind moves through TikTok and group chats, so seeing it in your child's vocabulary just means they are plugged into normal teen internet culture.
Slang is read by different audiences for very different reasons. The For parents view re-explains the term in plain, non-judgemental language so a caregiver can understand what their child means without needing the surrounding subculture. The For English learners view focuses on register (when it's safe to use), formal alternatives, and common mistakes — what a textbook won't teach you.
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(Singapore, Malaysia, informal) To go out on a date with someone whom one is romantically involved with.
(Singapore, informal) To deliberately miss an agreed appointment, especially at the last minute.
(Singaporean politics, Singlish, derogatory) Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party).
Singaporean Hokkien-influenced slang meaning frustrated, exasperated, or fed up — the feeling of being at the end of one's patience with a situation or person. It is widely used in Singapore colloquial English (Singlish) and is broadly understood across ethnic communities in Singapore.
Don't pretend you didn't pakat with your sister to make sure you got the bigger room — I know what you two are like.
Pakat is Malay/Indonesian/Filipino for "agreed" or "in cahoots," depending on context. Not concerning, just regional vocabulary. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in. Most slang of this kind moves through TikTok and group chats, so seeing it in your child's vocabulary just means they are plugged into normal teen internet culture.
Pakat is a Southeast Asian word (Malay, Indonesian, with related forms in Filipino) meaning "to agree" or "to conspire." Use in Southeast Asian contexts. Formal equivalents: "to agree," "to plot together." Common non-native mistake: confusing with English words. In Singlish and Manglish, pakat often implies conspiratorial agreement, sometimes with negative undertones. Read or listen to the word in context several times before trying it yourself; the right register is harder to learn than the dictionary meaning.
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(Singapore, Singlish) To conspire; to collude.
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“Musara Pakat telt 222 inwoners (volkstelling 2010).”
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