tuk-tuk

/ ˈtʌkˌtʌk /

noun

1. (in Thailand) a three-wheeled motor vehicle used as a taxi

Word History and Origins

Origin of tuk-tuk¹

C20: of imitative origin

Example Sentences

There is a mural of Salah outside his old school, while a tuk-tuk rushes past beeping its horn with a large sticker of the player smiling on the front.

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A hostel warden told the agency that he saw Mr Ahmed getting into a tuk-tuk in the morning and leaving campus.

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His family brought the bodies here on an electric rickshaw or tuk-tuk.

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"It doesn't matter how I'll do it, but I'll make sure that I have justice," says Mr Abanja, who is now 40 and makes a living as a tuk-tuk taxi driver.

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The beat of drums and firecrackers welcomed Thangapandian as she greeted voters recently riding an open-roofed tuk-tuk through Chennai’s alleyways.

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