2 published definitions
1. A toll booth. 2. An informal checkpoint or shakedown where a group of people stops passersby to ask for money, typically to fund a street party or buy a bottle of liquor (a pote).
You can't even go through Villa Consuelo at Christmas because of all the peajes they set up (Villa Consuelo is a neighborhood in Santo Domingo).
Automatically translated from Spanish
An illegal toll or shakedown where a thug demands money from someone to allow them passage through a street or neighborhood (commonly occurring in gang-controlled areas called barrios).
If you want to pass, pay me the pasaje. The pasaje is 5,000 if you want to go over there.
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