Prepone - Like postpone, but to have a meeting earlier rather than later.
Upgradation - To upgrade, obviously.
Do the needful and the same - "Here's the form. Please do the needful at your earliest convenience and return the same."
Contest - To run in an election.
Intimated - Contacted personally. "You will be intimated by customer service shortly."
Haan - Pronounced like a nasal ha, it means 'yes'. Usually 'haan, haan, haan'. Okay, okay, okay. Acha, acha, acha.
Bas or ho gaya - Enough.
Chelo - Let's go.
Peg - A shot of liquor.
Coolers - Sunglasses.
Cousin-brother and cousin-sister - Just being gender specific, I think. There are a lot of these compound familial relation descriptors.
Eck, do, teen - One, two, three. You don't really need to know more than that, do you?
Lakh and crore - Hundred thousand and ten million, respectively. "You totally want to have like one crore of his babies."
Double/triple - As in 'our phone number is 8408271 tripple 9' (that is not our number). Or 'No, see in this case is spelled s double e.'
Only - Along with its usual meaning, used instead of 'just' and often at the end of the sentence. "How's the concert so far?" "I don't know. I got here only."
Gymming - Going to the gym. "You look great. Have you been gymming?"
Mugging - To memorize.
To pass out - To graduate.
Rubber - Some of them are really just British English. Like duster for blackboard eraser and shift for moving house. When the students ask me for a rubber, I'm pretty sure they want an eraser and not a condom.
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When the students ask me for a rubber, I'm pretty sure they want an eraser and not a condom.
hahahahaha! I am ROFL
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