chamcha n.— «All three have pulled strings in their respective parties to get Assembly poll tickets for their puppets and close confidants, better known in political parlance as chamchas.» —“Leaders’ chamchas get lucky” by...
lung-opener n.— «To that extent, the lung opener, to borrow an expression from horse racing lexicon, was useful in fine-tuning the team for the stern tests ahead, starting with the clash against Sri Lanka at Dambulla tomorrow...
hocker n. a person who harangues, beseeches, or talks persuasively; a person who trades in information, gossip, or personal connections; someone who is (obnoxiously) ambitious. Editorial Note: Hocker is common and well-known to yeshiva students in...
yawncounter n.— «His subordinates happen to be a trigger-happy yawncounter specialist (Suniel Shetty often mumbling a dialect that needs subtitles), an overaged dialogue baazigar (Shatrughan Sinha, yelling his trademark “Khamosh...
myloon n.— «The word he used in Parsee Gujarati which I have rendered as “chicks” was “Mylaaon.” It’s a word which has come to mean in the demotic argot ‘girls’, ‘chicks’, ‘totty’ etc.…”I think it...