Baksheesh

Quick meaning: Baksheesh is a noun meaning In the Middle East or southwest Asia: a bribe or tip.

Meaning

In the Middle East or southwest Asia: a bribe or tip.

More Meanings

1. (military slang) A minor wound that necessitates the evacuation of a soldier from the combat zone for medical treatment.
2. (ambitransitive) To bribe with a baksheesh.

Example Sentences

What an honour to think that I am to be elevated to the throne, and to bring the seat in Parliament as backsheesh to the sultan!

Baksheesh (lubrication payment) is often the accepted manner of doing business in the Middle and Far East. However, one must be careful not to confuse ethics with the law.

When we had made the boys as comfortable as possible and given them fags, of which our Padre seemed to have an inexhaustable^([sic]) supply, they were quite cheerful, and joked about “backsheesh” wounds.

We see the immense, massive granite sarcophagi which had contained the embalmed mummies of the worshipped animals, coming out of this labyrinth, we pay our backsheesh, remount our donkeys and return to the automobile.

Word Forms

• baksheeshes
• bakshee
• bakhshish
• baksheeshing
• baksheeshed

Synonyms for baksheesh

Depending on context, synonyms include buckshee, tip, gratuity, backsheesh, bakshish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gratuity, tip, backsheesh, bakshish, sop, bakshee.

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