quickshaw

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of quick +‎ rickshaw.

Noun[edit]

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.
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