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Definition of Badmashes
1. badmash [n] - See also: badmash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Badmashes
Literary usage of Badmashes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Edge of the Empire by Edgar Jepson, David Beames (1899)
"VI THE badmashes THE word " Badmash " is a portmanteau word in India. It means
anything from a naughty little boy to a hardened villain ; and in every ..."
2. The Aryan Village in India and Ceylon by John Budd Phear (1880)
"are the reputed badmashes of the neighbourhood, and then immediately arrests some
one, two, or three of them, such as he thinks will be most likely, ..."
3. The Aryan Village in India and Ceylon by John Budd Phear (1880)
"are the reputed badmashes of the neighbourhood, and then immediately arrests some
one, two, or three of them, such as he thinks will be most likely, ..."
4. The Forward Policy and Its Results by Richard Isaac Bruce (1900)
"course, that after you made over charge several cases of Ghaza occurred in Bori
and Duki, and the badmashes invariably took refuge in Mina-Bazar with Umar ..."
5. British India by Robert Watson Frazer (1896)
"Though there were enough English troops, artillery, rifles, and carabineers to
scatter the mutineers and all the badmashes of the city from out of Meerut, ..."
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