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eve-teasing
 n.— «Buses in Delhi are notoriously the worst place for “Eve-teasing”—the 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  (U.K.) Oct. 2, 1984. (: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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