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- noun Plural form of
wallah .
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Also, this concept began, in it's primordial form, during the heyday of the 45 jukebox and I suppose in the modern jukebox as well, record companies obviously wanted the loudest 45 so that it would cut across the chattering "wallahs" of the clientele and hit them smack dab in the ear.
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Street vendors, students, revolutionaries, rickshaw wallahs, bus conductors, bankers, beggars – only India offers such a teeming panoply of characters from mega-rich to starving untouchable, and only a writer with Adiga's vision and sensitivity can bring them so vividly, so movingly to life.
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Part of this can be recovered by making the majority of the Police employees actual working Police Officers rather than office wallahs etc.
“Pin your ears back you lot; the Gene Genie speaks” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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None of these office-wallahs with their parking spaces! on March 24, 2010 at 7: 11 pm Metcountymounty
Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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But despite all the groundwork by committee-wallahs and redoubtable individuals, still there was something different and new about the Stonewall upheaval in America.
A couple of thoughts about Obama's "Hey, You're Gay, Hurray!" Day 2009
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In Varanasi, India, by the holy Ganges River, dhobi wallahs knelt beside the river and slapped wet clothes against flat rocks.
Following the Line: Photographing laundry around the world Ross Arbes 2010
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Walking through the crowded streets, dodging rickshaws and chai wallahs, vendors and Volkswagons, the cow takes it all in stride -- pausing to consume some garbage here, be blessed by a holy man there.
Zachary Stockill: "Go Veg, Young Man!" -- Eating Through India 2010
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Traditionally, Indians have bought their reading matter from thousands of closet-size bookstores operating in markets across the country or from neighborhood book-wallahs -- salesmen hawking bestsellers at street intersections.
English-language pulp fiction translates to success in India 2010
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Just as the Arabs can turn a defeat into a "victory" if it is not an immediate rout, so the intelligence wallahs can make a partnership out of enemy infiltration.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Will these Labour Party wallahs ever get the message? abraham
MarkMSteele commented on the word wallahs
pl. of wallah. A servant in India, particularly one who has a specific duty, such as serving tea. "Have the tea wallah bring me another cup, won't you?"
In the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire the identifier was used to mock the main character as "just a lowly chai wallah..."
September 23, 2009