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name
Initialism of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, the poorest and least developed regions in India.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, initialism, sometimes
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noun
a person from said states.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, derogatory, ethnic, slur
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History
Word-play on Hindi बीमार (bīmār, “sick, ill”), coined by Indian demographer Ashish Bose in the 1980s.
