Definitions

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  • noun A three-wheeled cycle rickshaw.

Etymologies

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Blend of tri- and rickshaw

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Examples

  • And beca pron. bay-cha aka trishaw, and horse-drawn carts.

    Four days in Yogyakarta Glenda Larke 2009

  • And beca pron. bay-cha aka trishaw, and horse-drawn carts.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Glenda Larke 2009

  • Passengers enjoy visits to remote jungle villages and silk-weaving towns, with the cruise including a host of complimentary tours such as trishaw rides through the coungtryside, junk boat tours to busy floating markets and excursions to ancient temples and the Khmer Rouge's grim Killing Fields near Phnom Penh.

    ETravelBlackboard.com 2009

  • "Seven people got hurt and I confirm that I heard that in front of the USDP office, two trishaw drivers also died immediately," Achin Sopagya said.

    Post-Election VIolence in Burma Prompts Fears of Wider Crackdown on Minorities 2010

  • After prison I could not get a job; that is why I drive a trishaw today.

    WORKING CLASS HEROES philip j cunningham 2009

  • The gray-haired soap box orator in the tattered Mao jacket responded to the gaze of our camera by climbing up on the top of a trishaw, waving his hands at us in a ritualized, almost theatrical way, not unlike the way officials did on TV.

    WORKING CLASS HEROES philip j cunningham 2009

  • Pico Iyer tells of a "bright, resourceful, well-educated" trishaw driver in Myanmar, stifled in a country where intelligence is "something to be feared and can best be used by giving oneself to something other than words and ideas."

    Archive 2009-03-29 SeattleTammy 2009

  • At left, trishaw drivers transport ballot boxes to polling stations in Yogyakarta Tuesday.

    Presidential Poll 2009

  • The gray-haired soap box orator in the tattered Mao jacket responded to the gaze of our camera by climbing up on the top of a trishaw, waving his hands at us in a ritualized, almost theatrical way, not unlike the way officials did on TV.

    Archive 2009-05-18 philip j cunningham 2009

  • After prison I could not get a job; that is why I drive a trishaw today.

    Archive 2009-05-18 philip j cunningham 2009

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