"Mumbai lingo is a bit different. There’s a lot of Hindi slang and it’s mostly abusive, but used a lot in the modeling circuit. [A fairly common term here] is ‘bombay docks’, used when a girl has bad body odour." (Mumbai model Sahil Shroff quoted in The slang bang! by Reshma Arya, DNA, December 4, 2006)
A recent Rusty Foster post investigates a usage of the term “jackpot” I
wasn’t familiar with (the usual ‘big prize’ sense comes from “a form of
poker, wher...
