mototaxi

American  

[moh-toh-tak-see] / ˈmoʊ toʊˌtæk si /

noun

1. (especially in Latin America) a motorized three-wheeled public conveyance, as a converted motorcycle, with a one- or two-passenger bench usually mounted behind the driver but sometimes in front.

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Etymology

Origin of mototaxi

First recorded in 1920–25; from Latin American Spanish (Peru)

Example Sentences

There, mototaxi drivers wait to zip them to the trailhead — a route that is now being paved.

From Seattle Times

There, mototaxi drivers wait to zip them to the trailhead - a route that is now being paved.

From Washington Times

Friends send home-cooked meals via mototaxi.

From Washington Post

The oxygen was of unknown quality, and its price a markup of around 1,000 percent — a crushing blow for a family whose principal breadwinner, Rodríguez’s husband, typically earns less than $50 a day driving a mototaxi, a motorcycle rickshaw, here in the Peruvian capital.

From Washington Post

When we reached the correct port in the northeast corner of town, which our mototaxi driver called Enapu, we saw a flurry of activity.

From Washington Post