gup-shup

noun

Gossip or rumor; idle talk.

OriginHindi गप-शप →
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Meanings

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

plural gup-shups · alternative gup shup

  1. IndiacolloquialuncountableusuallyGossip or rumor; idle talk.

    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
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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.

    1997, Ardashir Vakil, Beach Boy, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, page 170

    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

Origin

  1. Hindiगप-शप“gossip”
  2. Englishgup-shup

From Hindi गप-शप (gap-śap, “gossip”).

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