pity clap

Supposedly encouraging applause, as for the last finisher in a race, that actually serves to make the recipient feel worse. By extension, any recognition received too late or after calling an achievement to someone's attention.

He knew that the cheap and meaningless "achievement certificate", given after thirty years of service, was nothing but a pity clap.

dhoop

Any sort of messy (especially runny or drippy), unidentifiable, light-colored food. (Dhoop is actually incense used by Hindus. This definition resulted from seeing the word in passing in a book and trying to guess what it meant from its sound alone. We thought it had a wet and sloppy sound, hence our definition. A sizable group of my friends uses the "messy" definition now. It might not be a widely-used word yet, but that's how things like this get started.)

"I didn't know what Al's Mom served us. It was some sort of dhoop poured over rice."

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skrip

An ordinarily unimportant piece of paper (like a corner torn off a bigger sheet or the back of a receipt) that you feel you need to save because you've written something important on it.

Don't throw away that skrip of paper!

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drop

A self-belittling way of saying "published" or "released". Unlike those terms, which imply a certain equality between a producer and a consumer, "drop" suggests hierarchy, something being tossed from our betters above to us peons below. Record producers and film-makers laugh when they hear us using "drop" because it means they've convinced us we're less than they are, and simply live in expectation of what they condescend to fling over their balconies to the rabble.

"Don't say that new album's gonna 'drop'. That makes it sound like we're waiting for poop to fall out of a horse's ass."