eve-teasing
n.— «Buses in Delhi are notoriously the worst place for “Eve-teasing”—the Indian term which covers everything from sexual harassment, pestering, groping, whispered obscenities as well as light-hearted cat calls and equivalents of “hello darling.”» —“When the teasing had to stop” in New Delhi Guardian (U.K.) Oct. 2, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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