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单词 pak pai
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pak pain.

Brit. /ˌpak ˈpʌɪ/, U.S. /ˌpæk ˈpaɪ/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, pak pais.
Origin: A borrowing from Chinese. Etymon: Chinese baahk báai.
Etymology: < Chinese (Cantonese)baahk báai (Meyer-Wempe transcription paâk p'áai), literally ‘white (vehicle) number plate’ < baahk white + báai sign, notice, referring to the colour of the non-commercial (vehicle) number plates used in Hong Kong.
Now historical.
In Hong Kong: a car used illegally as a taxi.Occasionally used with reference to other countries.
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1972 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 4 Dec. 10/6 Pak Pai, a car which plies for hire, illegally.
1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy xix. 464 Collecting gambling debts from the pak-pai drivers.
1993 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 4 Sept. (Saturday Review) 12/8 The car park of pak pais at Bangkok International Airport.
2000 Toronto Star (Nexis) 7 Feb. About 30 years ago in Hong Kong, corrupt syndicates in the police force..issued windshield stickers to operators of pak pai (illegal passenger cabs or vans).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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