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单词 ojek
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ojekn.

Brit. /ˈəʊdʒɛk/, U.S. /ˈoʊˌdʒɛk/
Inflections: Plural ojeks, unchanged.
Origin: A borrowing from Indonesian. Etymon: Indonesian ojek.
Etymology: < Indonesian ojek a bicycle or motorcycle taxi (c1965 or earlier), of uncertain origin.Compare Javanese ojek in the same sense.
In Indonesia.
1. A trader who transports goods using a bicycle. rare.
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1981 L. A. Mears New Rice Econ. Indonesia iv. 110 As seen in West and Central Java, the ojek at times carries up to four quintal bags of paddy on his bicycle.
2.
a. A bicycle or motorcycle used as a taxi.
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1983 A. DeLand Fielding's Far East 1984 81 The ojek is a bicycle taxi, often motorized; the passenger sits behind the driver.
1991 Sojourn 6 294 They work as drivers of delman or ojek in the local transportation sector.
2008 Tempo (Indonesia) Sept. 53/1 He does not want to ride just any old ojek.
2017 Bangkok Post (Nexis) 29 May The government had taken into account the growing popularity of ojeks and was working on amending the traffic and land transport law.
b. A person who operates a bicycle or motorcycle taxi.
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2000 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 29 July 2/3 The [Indonesian] authorities..have started deploying their personnel to meet potential demonstrators, including tukang becak (trishaw riders) and ojek (motocyclists [sic] who transport passengers for a fee).
2017 @ruliharahap 12 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Sometimes I wonder what these ojeks do to their helmets to leave the visor all scratched up to the point of not being able to see through it.
2018 W. Hurst Ruling before Law iv. 166 Two of the other ojeks who had been involved testified that the defendant had indeed acted in such a manner.

Compounds

General attributive and objective (in sense 2) as ojek driver, ojek ride, etc.
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1985 B. Dalton Indonesia Handbk. (ed. 3) 61/1 Bicycle riders can be approached for ojek rides too.
1985 Indonesia Rep. 20 Feb. 41 Picture-takers and ojek drivers at the Borobudur were assembled and questioned about suspicious persons they might have seen.
1998 Washington Post 23 Jan. a30/4 Just off the main road in Puncak..about 15 ojek drivers—young men who sell rides on their motorcycles—were sitting around a shelter.
2000 R. Cervero Informal Transport in Developing World vi. 165 A recent survey of ojek passengers in Bandung found 94 percent judged services in their neighborhood as ‘reasonably good’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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