A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
1 Nilratan spoke to the peons: "There has been no occasion for bakshish ; you shan't have it."
2 The peons, grinning as before, answered: "The Babu-Sahib went to see the Magistrate-sowe have come for bakshish . "
3 They rowed hard when the course was clear, encouraged by promises of liberal bakshish made by their employer at Desmond's prompting.
4 The soldiers behaved most helpfully and the brave and bold Jabberi had not yet once mentioned bakshish in our hearing and were most polite.
5 The term meant the U.S. might have to tolerate the inevitable " bakshish , " the small cost-of-doing-business bribes that were part of Afghan culture.
6 Occasionally there was a visit from a little party of juvenile acrobats, who gave exhibitions of their prowess in return for " bakshish . "
7 The six peons displayed a dozen rows of teeth and said: " Bakshish - Babu -Sahib .
8 From a side room Nilratan came out, and said in an irritated manner: Bakshish ?
9 My family don't dare to visit me, because I demand BAKSHISH in such a brazen manner.
10 9-8-5-ninerupees eight annas and five pie-for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.
11 "Promise the men more bakshish : don't stint."
12 One cannot go out upon one's roof without all the other roofs being crowded, and cries of " Bakshish " arise like the cackle of fowls.
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