trishaw

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Etymology

Blend of tri- +‎ rickshaw

Noun

trishaw (plural trishaws)

  1. A three-wheeled cycle rickshaw.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 378:
      Hardman ran to the corner and jumped into a trishaw. The driver was maddeningly slow and stupid.
    • 2008 May 5, The Associated Press, “Cyclone Kills More Than 350 in Myanmar”, in New York Times:
      “Where are all those uniformed people who are always ready to beat civilians?” asked a trishaw taxi driver, who said he did not want to be identified because he feared retribution.

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