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quickshaw en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of quick + rickshaw.

Meanings

1. (Sri-Lanka) A taxi.
   • We went out together and hired a quickshaw (as the Ceylonese taxis used to be called) and I took him out for beer and lunch at my favourite Chinese restaurant. 1989, Jane Williams, Tambimuttu: bridge between two worlds:
   • We drove there in the one taxi in town, a large Brougham automobile of ancient vintage, whimsically called a quickshaw. 2014, Leila Hadley, Give Me the World:
   • Shop-owners tried to entice us into their shops, but we caught a quickshaw or taxi and asked for the nuns' convent. Never have I been so scared as I was during the next twenty minutes. There are no traffic rules in Colombo […] 1965, Janice Woodley, Not in this Way:

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