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- noun Plural form of
jeepney .
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Examples
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There are 'jeepneys', a kind of 15 passenger minibus with no doors or windows, or room to stand up - a wild ride.
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Other interesting initiatives included the provision of portable housing for slum dwellers in Kenya, the recycling of jeepneys into classrooms in the Philippines, and the use of pets as healers to traumatized populations.
Gail Vida Hamburg: Money Catches up With Meaning in Social Enterprise Gail Vida Hamburg 2010
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Filipinos I met didn't talk about jeepneys amongst themselves, and were almost reluctant to answer my questions.
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I did, my first hour in Manila -- exhausted from a 16-hour flight and 13-hour jetlag, inside an air-conditioned taxi trying to muscle its way through morning rush hour to our accommodations -- when the rising sun picked out the brightest things on an already colorful landscape, and all the things that people had tried to tell me about jeepneys before burst visually into my consciousness like ripe coconuts onto my hard, hard head.
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There aren't any jeepneys in the video, but I have no idea if the song deals with jeepneys.
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It seems almost silly to point out the Filipino-representative nature of jeepneys; it's so overstated already.
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It's also impossible not to fall in love with jeepneys.
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It doesn't seem, this work, to be about meldings of pop culture and traditional culture, or turning the weapons of war into street art, or any of those clever things I and others say about jeepneys.
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Today most of the same believers are not only coming in tricycles and jeepneys but have their [own] cars and SUVs.
Preacher Power 2010
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I don't know what exactly it means for the jeepneys, much less for unpretentious "folk" art.
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