cycle rickshaw

American  

[sahy-kuhl rik-shaw, rik-shah] / ˈsaɪ kəl ˌrɪk ʃɔ, ˌrɪk ʃɑ /

noun

1. (especially in Southeast Asia) a three-wheeled public conveyance operated by pedals, typically one having a two-passenger hooded cab usually mounted behind the driver but sometimes in front.

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Etymology

Origin of cycle rickshaw

First recorded in 1940–45

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cycle rickshaw

Every day by 9 a.m., she and her husband arrive on a cycle rickshaw from home with a gas stove and other paraphernalia and work until around 5 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

A man carries a fan in the back of a cycle rickshaw, its blades spinning in the wind; another pedals his bicycle with a single watermelon fastened to its back.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2022

In the past two years, sons of a railway station baggage handler, a truck driver and a cycle rickshaw driver studied in Kota and made it to top engineering and medical colleges.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2016

At the tram depot, Gauri and her mother-in-law hired a cycle rickshaw to take them home.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2013