fais do-do n.— «Despite the album’s throwback ethos, the boys in the band keep things hopping—”fais-do-do-ing,” in New Orleans parlance.» —“CD Reviews: Jay-Z and Linkin Park, Alison Krauss, Handsome Boy Modeling School...
béké n.— «When Leblanc made his political debut, in 1957, he joined the Dominica Labour Party, which had been founded two years before by the novelist and poet Phyllis Shand Allfrey (author of The Orchid House and a rare locally...
tap-tap n.— «I was cheering them on when a tap-tap, the gaily painted bus, careened into the crowd and knocked a paper mask flying.» —“Progress In Haiti: Leopards In Sneakers Instead of Tonton Macoutes” by Herbert...
tap-tap n. a truck or van used as an independently operated taxi. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
tap-tap n.— «Strange little buses called “tap-taps,” constructed on flatbed trucks and decorated over every inch with paintings of flowers, animals, Bible stories and proverbs, ply along the Avenue des Salines parallel with...
tap-tap n.— «Once on the road to Aux Cayes we passed a tap-tap (a small pickup truck) wreck and there was a man laying in the road dead. I realized how the U.S. is so candy coated. They hide death there.» —“Haiti Teaches of Death...