English[edit]
bamboo baksheesh (uncountable)
- (slang, archaic) The act of striking a person who comes begging for money.
1939, “Running Commentary”, in Punch, volume 196, page 280:Run, oh splay-footed loafer, lest I pay you bamboo baksheesh.
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References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary