Meaning of tap tap | Babel Free

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

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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.”

“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.”

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