Word of the day: Rowdy-sheeter
I ran across this word in a news article posted on Bangalore Buzz, a news aggregator that has been an invaluable resource for me as I research Bangalore for a novel. Here is an excerpt from the article:
The murder of Palani, 40, a rowdysheeter, while undergoing treatment at HOSMAT hospital is the latest in a chain of events that began some years back.
Most gang-wars began due to turf control of cable operations.
According to police, the gang wars started following the murder of Rahim Ali, a rowdy-sheeter and a cable operator in Fraser Town police station limits a few years ago, and still continue in Viveknagar, Girinagar and Banashankari.
Rahim Ali was murdered by a gang on contract given allegedly by D D Ravi and his brother Umashankar over cable operations....
Notice the two different spellings: rowdysheeter and rowdy-sheeter. And entry for the first usage points to this entry for the second, hyphenated use of the word, which it defines as "a person with a criminal record; a hardened criminal."
I still don't know what "cable operations" refers to.
1 comment:
hey.....
The local Mafia has it's finger in every pie. Including cable operations...which is nothing but cable TV rights over a particular area...that a lot of cable TV service providers fight over.
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