gunga din
noun used to address a man with a perceived Indian or Asian ethnicity. Racist, derogatory; a stereotypical appellation from the poem 'Gunga Din', Rudyard Kipling, 1897: 'Of all them black-faced crew/ The finest man I knew / Was our regimental
bhisti [a water-carrier], Gunga Din'
UK, 1994
Gunga Din
⇨ Gunga Din; gunga
noun the chin. Rhyming slang, formed from Rudyard Kupling's poem
UK, 1992