Crossword-Solution: BAKSHEESH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Baksheesh | n. | Alt. of Bakshish |
We have 15 clues for the answer “BAKSHEESH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Payment to expedite service | 1 answer |
| Small amount given for services rendered | 1 answer |
| Tip to expedite service | 1 answer |
| PERSIAN gift of money, small | 2 answers |
| PERSIAN gratuity | 2 answers |
| PERSIAN money, small gift of | 2 answers |
| PERSIAN token of gratuity | 2 answers |
| gift of money | 3 answers |
| BAKHSHISH | 3 answers |
| ALMS | 24 answers |
| Gratuity | 35 answers |
| Acquisition. | 53 answers |
| reward | 71 answers |
| Tip | 76 answers |
| Gift | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BAKSHEESH (5)
Add a hundred for the cost of the last trip—Gad, won’t Torp stare to see me!—a hundred and thirty-two leaves seventy-eight for _baksheesh_—I shall need it—and to play with.
Hatoun of Cairo (and every visitor to Cairo knows Hatoun) gave it me as Baksheesh; it is, however, a genuine bit from a poor humble devil's tomb of about five thousand years ago.
The consensus of the baksheesh and the political assassination is replaced, ever so gradually, by the dissension of the market place.
Besides, in every country there are passport officers who are amenable to a little baksheesh!” And he grinned.
When Smith found himself outside the sacred door, and had presented its venerable guardian with a baksheesh of five piastres, he walked a few paces to the right and paused a while to watch some native labourers who were dragging a huge sarcophagus upon an improvised tramway.
Quotes with BAKSHEESH (1)
As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand. Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops.""Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said." Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001).