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tap-tap

tap-tap is the alternative form of tap tap.

Meaning of tap tap

Noun

tap tap (plural tap taps)

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

Forms of tap-tap

pluraltap-taps

Questions about tap-tap

What is tap-tap the alternative form of?
Tap-tap is the alternative form of tap tap.

Words near tap-tap in the dictionary

  1. tap-room
  2. tap-tackle
  3. tap-tackled
  4. tap-tackles
  5. tap-tackling
  6. tap-tap
  7. Tap-tub
  8. tap-water
  9. tapa
  10. Tapachula
  11. Tapachultec

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