quickshaw

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noun

A taxi.

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Meanings

nounquickshaw (plural quickshaws)

plural quickshaws

  1. Sri LankaA taxi.

    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
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    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

Origin

Blend of quick + rickshaw.

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APA

quickshaw. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickshaw

MLA

“quickshaw.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickshaw. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quickshaw,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickshaw.

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