Chata
A common slang term for a pickup truck or utility van.
Here comes the chata! Now we can move the furniture.
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Tag: camioneta
Definitions tagged camioneta in the street dictionary.
Argentinatroca
A pickup truck or any large vehicle used for hauling cargo. (This term is a phonetic adaptation of the English word truck and is particularly common in Northern Mexico and border regions).
Let's go in the troca so we have more space. That troca is awesome.
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Méxicomionca
A slang term for a truck (an example of vesre, a linguistic style where syllables are reversed to form new slang).
His business consists of hauling goods with the 4 mioncas he owns.
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PerúChirrinchera
A pickup truck modified with benches and a roof to carry people, used as improvised public transportation (commonly seen in rural areas like the plains).
Those guys have a lot of chirrincheras. In the plains region, everyone has chirrincheras.
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VenezuelaPlatanera
A nickname for the Daihatsu Hijet or similar small utility trucks, called this because they are commonly used to sell plantains from the truck bed (these micro-trucks are the standard vehicle for street vendors in the Dominican Republic).
Get the platanera for me, I have to work.
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República Dominicanapichirila
A beat-up old car or a modest used vehicle, often a jalopy.
Luis couldn't afford a new car, so he bought a pichirila.
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perrera
A police paddy wagon or transport van, also known as a guagua celular, where detainees are packed together in the back. In the Dominican Republic, these were famously grey Land Cruiser J70 utility vehicles. (The name literally means dog pound, suggesting prisoners are treated like stray animals).
They hauled them off in a perrera for starting a drunken brawl.
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Guagüita Platanera
A small pickup truck or utility vehicle commonly used in markets to transport goods, especially plantains and starchy root vegetables. (In the Dominican Republic, these are iconic street-vending vehicles often seen carrying heavy loads of produce).
A guagüita platanera cut him off and they took him to the Dario (a major trauma hospital in Santo Domingo).
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Roka
A brand of pickup trucks assembled in the Dominican Republic in the early 1990s. They featured Datsun 1200 and 1500 engines and were available in standard and van versions. Some are still in circulation today. These were preceded by the RM or Cacique models, cargo vehicles designed by Army General Ramiro Matos.
Roka, the Dominican vehicle.
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cuquita
In the Dominican Republic, this is the nickname for the Daihatsu Hijet, a Japanese mini-truck. These vehicles are imported from Japan with the steering wheel on the right and converted to the left (and their paperwork often conveniently loses about ten years) before being sold. They are famous for being incredibly tough despite their tiny 660cc engines, as Dominican drivers push them to the limit, hauling heavy loads of produce up steep mountain roads (Jarabacoa, Constanza, and Ocoa are mountainous farming regions).
Buddy, I am going to buy a cuquita they are selling me. It is a manual with A/C and a propane conversion; I am going to bring it back loaded with tomatoes from Rancho Arriba all week.
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Guagua
A term for a vehicle that can mean a bus or a van depending on the context. (In the Dominican Republic, it usually refers to the public transportation buses or minibuses that run specific routes).
The guagua was full of passengers.
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