público
noun
(especially in Puerto Rico) a taxi that picks up and discharges passengers along a fixed route.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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When we reached Bayamón, the closest city to Macún, we had to change públicos.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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