stadium
n.— «In Bombay, men who have a bald spot with a fringe of hair all around are called “stadiums,” as in “Hey stadium, you’re standing on my foot.”» —“A Hindi-English jumble, spoken by 350 million” by Scott Baldauf in Gurgaon, India Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass.) Nov. 23, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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