eve-teasing
n.— «Police officials have been discovering that the collegiate enthusiasts who prowl streets in Indian cities are not content to watch the girls go by. Indian newspapers have carried accounts of police roundups in Srinagar, Dehra Dun and other centers for indecent advances at bus stands and traffic intersections.…Happy headline writers have dubbed the new offense “Eve-teasing.”» —“The Sad State Of India’s Youth” by Selig S. Harrison Washington Post, Times Herald (D.C.) Oct. 26, 1963. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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