mototaxi

[ moh-toh-tak-see ]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mototaxi¹

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

The man arrested for Velázquez’s murder, a mototaxi driver, was sentenced in January to 93 years in prison for femicide.

From Seattle 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