paisa vasool
bang for the buck; cost-effective, value for money, worthwhile
Even though a film is well mounted, however much these magazines may bolster it up, if it is not paisa vasool, and pampers the people's values and devotions, they dump it.
paisa
/ˈpaɪsə/
noun 6
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2PAISA + NOUN
inmates, wholesaler
PREP.
from, with
Definitions
noun
1
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Indian, Nepalese, or Pakistani rupee.
2
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka.
3
A subdivision of currency, equal to one thousandth of an Omani rial.
4
A subdivision of various former currencies of India.
noun
1
A person hailing from the same country; in particular, a fellow Latino.
... prison, talked about his relationship with drug traffickers in Mexico some twenty-five years before. His street gang had a relationship with a paisa wholesaler. An understanding of respect existed between Rubén's gang and its paisa supplier[…] Wrangler, a White man who associated with the Aryan Brotherhood while in priso, described how the changing demographics of his neighborhood led to his being introduced to paisas who were moving meth in from Mexico. […] Wrangler went on to describe a specific contact from his neighborhood, Carlos, who […] had gone on to become part of a Latino stret gang and later a prison gang and had a connection with a wholesaler.
2
A Latino who is not a gangster nor gang-affiliated.
[The story] came to me in various versions from marero and paisa inmates who had been incarcerated in the early 2000s. “El Spyder. I knew him. He was sureño,” said Carlos, an[…]
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... prison, talked about his relationship with drug traffickers in Mexico some twenty-five years before. His street gang had a relationship with a paisa wholesaler. An understanding of respect existed
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[The story] came to me in various versions from marero and paisa inmates who had been incarcerated in the early 2000s. “El Spyder. I knew him. He was sureño,” said Carlos, an[…]
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