quickshaw

quickshaw

English

Etymology

Blend of quick +‎ rickshaw

Noun

quickshaw (plural quickshaws)

1. (Sri Lanka) A taxi.
   • 1965, Janice Woodley, Not in this Way

     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 […]

   • 1989, Jane Williams, Tambimuttu: bridge between two worlds

     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.

   • 2014, Leila Hadley, Give Me the World

     We drove there in the one taxi in town, a large Brougham automobile of ancient vintage, whimsically called a quickshaw.