rickshaw

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Her husband is a security guard and also drives a an auto-rickshaw, a local three-wheeled vehicle, when he gets free from the job.

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  1. An abbreviated form of jinrikisha, in current colloquial use throughout the East.

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  • An hour later they get down off of the rickshaw, and she throws her hands up and she says, "Wasn't that wonderful?" —  Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat
  • Her husband is a security guard and also drives a an auto-rickshaw, a local three-wheeled vehicle, when he gets free from the job. —  Kiva Loans
  • The explosion happened at 6: 15 PM in an auto rickshaw, which is famous for sale of foreign goods, in the evening. —  The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
  • The cost of motorcycle-rickshaw, the most common mode of intra-city transport presently, is still out of the reach of the poor kochwan. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • While you might plan to avoid riding in an auto-rickshaw, after a few drinks at a banquet when you can't find your driver, who knows what you might do. —  SpendMatters
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