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Baksheesh   Listen
noun
baksheesh  n.  
1.
A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter). Same as Backsheesh.
Synonyms: gratuity, tip, bakshish, bakshis, backsheesh.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Baksheesh" Quotes from Famous Books



... their employer; he, also, must have his plunder before he parts with the bags of dollars to the governor of the province. Thus the unfortunate cultivator is ground down; should he refuse to pay the necessary "baksheesh" or present to the tax-collectors, some false charge is trumped up against him, and he is thrown into prison. As a green field is an attraction to a flight of locusts in their desolating voyage, so is a luxuriant farm in the Soudan a point for the tax-collectors of Upper Egypt. I have frequently ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker



Words linked to "Baksheesh" :   gratuity, pourboire, perquisite, perk, bakshis, fringe benefit



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