Definitions
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- noun A type of
share taxi in Southeast Asia made out of an altered pickup truck with two benches in the back down each side.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We packed up, got breaky which consisted of honey pancakes that tasted of garlic, and headed out to the road to flag a songthaew down to head back to Route 13 on the other side of the Mekong.
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Incidentally we had been told not to take a songthaew by a Thai girl that told us it would be full of Burmese who apparently smell and could not be trusted.
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It turned out that this was not a songthaew but a family travelling to the festival.
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Now it had entered our minds that with a festival close by, finding accommodation may be tricky and the first guest house our songthaew stopped at was not a good omen However, the second turned out to have one free room (mainly because the staff had been kicked out for the duration of the festival).
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Our elderly driver pulled up right at the back of a songthaew in amongst the mayhem of many others and we clambered in to join eight other people and many more water melons.
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So one hot night at the guesthouse, and then we jumped into a songthaew (a pickup truck with a bench on both sides of the bucket and overhead canopy - holds 8-16).
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We wandered the town until we happened upon a songthaew bound for Kamala - our 1st choice beach destination (a songthaew is basically a covered truck with benches in the back).
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At least in the songthaew you're kept dry by the 60kph wind rushing through.
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So one hot night at the guesthouse, and then we jumped into a songthaew (a pickup truck with a bench on both sides of the bucket and overhead canopy - holds 8-16).
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People must have come from far and wide and we passed pickup truck after songthaew all jam packed.
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