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gup-shup en · NOUN

Etymology

From Hindi गप-शप (gap-śap, “gossip”).

Meanings

1. (India, colloquial, uncountable, usually) Gossip or rumor; idle talk.
   • 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. 1997, Ardashir Vakil, Beach Boy, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, page 170:
   • It takes an afternoon or two for the locals to know you are back so that they can drop in for some gup-shup. 2009, Khushwant Singh, Why I Supported the Emergency: Essays and Profiles, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, page 147:
   • When not in classes the Bookers Park was my den. As the name, it was a park within the campus for those who preferred to read peacefully without being monitored as in the library. Note sharing, discussions and even occasional gup-shups took place here. 2014, Lakshmi C Radhakrishnan, Does Love Really Bite???, Partridge India (hardcover) (softcover), chapter 1, 4–5

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