matatu
noun/mæˈtætuː/
/mæˈtætuː/
East African English [maˈtatu]
(East African English)- (in Kenya) a small, privately owned bus, often decorated with pictures, words or phrases, that carries passengers and has a driver that you pay to take you somewhere, usually along a fixed route with other stops for people to get on and offTopics Transport by car or lorryc2Word OriginKiswahili, short for mapeni matatu ‘thirty cents’, a flat fare charged in the early 1960s.
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