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gup-shup

gup-shup noun: gossip or rumor; idle talk.

Noun

gup-shup (usually uncountable, plural gup-shups)

  1. (India, colloquial, 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

Forms of gup-shup

pluralgup-shups
alternative formgup shup

Origin of gup-shup

From Hindi गप-शप (gap-śap, “gossip”).

Questions about gup-shup

What does gup-shup mean?
Gup-shup means gossip or rumor; idle talk.
What part of speech is gup-shup?
Gup-shup is a noun.
What is the plural of gup-shup?
The plural of gup-shup is gup-shups.

Words near gup-shup in the dictionary

  1. Guoyang
  2. Guoyu
  3. gup
  4. gup shup
  5. gup shups
  6. gup-shup
  7. gup-shups
  8. gupeiite
  9. guppie
  10. guppies
  11. guppy

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