Gup-shup

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Gossip or rumor; idle talk. India, colloquial, uncountable, usually

    "It's not like the old days when Bharat and Sanjay and Madhu and Ding-Dong Surdi and Honky Shah would come every morning and we would all go through the day's gup shup."

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"It's not like the old days when Bharat and Sanjay and Madhu and Ding-Dong Surdi and Honky Shah would come every morning and we would all go through the day's gup shup."

Etymology

From Hindi गप-शप (gap-śap, “gossip”).

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