What does quickshaw mean?
Quickshaw means (Sri Lanka) A taxi..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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 […]
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.
We drove there in the one taxi in town, a large Brougham automobile of ancient vintage, whimsically called a quickshaw.
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Quickshaw means (Sri Lanka) A taxi..
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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 […]
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