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quickshaw

quickshaw noun: a taxi.

Noun

quickshaw (plural quickshaws)

  1. (Sri-Lanka) A taxi.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of quickshaw

pluralquickshaws

Origin of quickshaw

Blend of quick + rickshaw.

Questions about quickshaw

What does quickshaw mean?
Quickshaw means a taxi.
What part of speech is quickshaw?
Quickshaw is a noun.
What is the plural of quickshaw?
The plural of quickshaw is quickshaws.

Words near quickshaw in the dictionary

  1. quickscoping
  2. quickselect
  3. quickset
  4. quicksets
  5. quicksetting
  6. quickshaw
  7. quickshaws
  8. quickshifter
  9. quickshifters
  10. quickshot
  11. quicksighted

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