fakelaki

noun

1. An envelope containing cash, offered as a bribe in Greece.

   Various forms of corruption permeated the system, where cash gifts in fakelaki or ‘little envelopes’ were a fact of life, and where, crucially, the rich regarded paying tax as something that only the poor and stupid would ever choose to do.

Where it comes from

From Greek φακελάκι (fakeláki, “little envelope”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry fakelaki (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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