This slang word is from the English “evacuate.”
Nagbakwit sila.
They “evacuated.”
They fled, left the area.
Origin: Nag-ebakwit sila.
This is often used when the evacuation is due to a natural disaster or by some armed fighting. Earliest record of use seems to have been during the Japanese occupation in the 1940s during the Second World War.
Spelling variation: bakwet
KAHULUGAN SA TAGALOG
bakwit: likas, paglikas
