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jeepney
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jeep·ney  (jpn)
n. pl. jeep·neys
A jitney bus used in the Philippines for public transportation.



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Those structures in Burnham's plan that were eventually built seem besieged by the city around them--the National Museum and Manila City Hall, for example, are hemmed in by the endless rumbling of jeepneys along Padre Burgos Avenue.
Crosscultural convergence is similarly discovered in metro Manila's construction of "flyovers" (vehicle overpasses at major interchanges), seen as devices to lift the car-owning elite one more level above the jeepneys below on streets crowded by an underclass swollen by rural refugees.
 
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