tap tap

plural tap taps · alternative tap-tap

1. A bus or pick-up truck used as public transport in Haiti.

   One was lying face up on the street surrounded by a scattered deck of cards and another found face down inside a pick-up truck known as a “tap-tap” that operates as a taxi.

   [2024 March 18, “At least a dozen dead as gang violence spills into wealthy areas of Haiti capital”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   We drive through the central city of Port-au-Prince, to my eyes a confusing mass of women selling vegetables and goods which they carry on their heads; beggars; dust; heat; and the brightly painted tap-taps (communal taxis), which are, after walking, the ordinary person's transportation.

   1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8