yakka noun 2verb 1forms 2 noun2 •(Australia) Work.The demand for work and abortion shows that feminists have been coopted by the wimps, whose ideal is the single mother yoked to tough yakka; for it frees them to drift between bedrooms and bathhouses. — 1986 •(slang, offensive) a Sikh living in the Sikh diaspora, especially one from the West verb1 •(Australia) To work. formsyakkas · yakke