‖ samlor
(ˈsæmlɔː(r))
Also samlo.
[Thai.]
Chiefly in Thailand, a three-wheeled vehicle, freq. motorized, used as a taxi.
| 1955 Times 6 May 11/6 Let him be insidiously towed in a motor samlor round this town of Bangkok. 1960 R. Kirkbride Innocent Abroad xi. 82 We crossed a humped bridge..in the city, dodging about amongst cycle-rickshaws and samlors. 1963 ‘Han Suyin’ Four Faces 54 Peter would photograph her in front of the temples of Angkor, stepping down from a samlo, the three-wheeled vehicle, man-propelled, in use in Cambodia. 1974 Time 7 Jan. 50/2 The Assembly even includes a samlor driver, who intends to park his three-wheel smoke-belching minitaxi at the National Assembly building. |