Short for skeleton. A name given to reed-thin specimens of the human race — but mostly that monkey you hang out with during lunch breaks in the school mudground.

Strangely enough, this term is almost exclusively used for really skinny girls. Stranger though, the only ones using them are her fatter, jealous female friends.

Originally a bad word, nowadays used to address your friend. Literally means your wife's brother; derogates a person's sister and hence was considered a bad word.

Foolish, silly

a mans penis

This one is a measure of a person's financial status.
A scale of remuneration simply referred to as 'scale'.
Persons, having permanent jobs are on a scale.

It could be old or new scale, revised and sometimes re-revised scale, starting scale or super-annuation scale, state or central scale, and a dozen other types.

A wooden foot rule used as a fuel gauge in autos by drivers.
The auto driver intermittently checks the level of petrol by dipping a scale into the tank and makes sure that it has just enough-not too much, not too less- of the fuel.
Because usually the autos haven't had any fuel gauge, and also he has to return the vehicle at the end of his shift with just a little of fuel, roughly as much as was in it in the beginning of the shift.

He will lose money if he returns the auto with more petrol, and the owner will not like it if he gives it back nearly dry.

Slut

Affectionate term for Bollywood hero Salman Khan

Sex worker. In Bangalore many say that Sholay circle is actually a corruption of soolay circle, in cant Bangalore.

Rule / Ruler / Line Gauge

Instrument used in geometry, technical drawing or otherwise to measure distances or produce straight lines.

Old colonial inheritance. In disuse throughout the rest of the english speaking world.

slang for cell phone

Hindi word for your wife's brother. Commonly used to curse at someone in an endearing sorta way.

IndiaTimes once ranked this one of the Top 25 Must See Bollywood films of all time. Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan, this film features tons of plot masala.

Two hapless criminals, Veer and Jai, are recruited to defend the village of Ramgarh from the notorious dacoit Gabbar Singh, played by Amjad Khan, who set the bar high for Bollywood villainry. And Amitabh Bachchan's Jai prepared Bollywood for the angry young man archetype: wronged, pouting, and latently heroic, with a measured seduction of the heroine, who herself embodies noble archetypes of South Asian femininity. Also, Amitabh Bachchan sports one in a series of truly bad haircuts.