canteen honours
n.pl.— «Shyam Benegal’s Bose: The Forgotten Hero makes me wish I had attended some classes, instead of doing what, in Presidency College Calcutta parlance, was called “canteen honours.”» —“Bose: A great patriotic film” by Sumit Bhattacharya Rediff (Mumbai, India) May 13, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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