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- Japanese · borrowed fromママチャリ
- English todaymamachari
Borrowed from Japanese ママチャリ, compound of ママ (mama, “mama, mother”) + チャリ (chari, “bike”), from the way this kind of bicycle is often used by young mothers. Often seen with a child seat on the rear rack.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.