tongpats

• pangngalan (tong-pats) halagang idinadagdag o ipinapatong sa totoong gastos o badyet, kung kaya lumolobo nang husto ang project cost; perang minamaniobra sa project cost at napupunta sa bulsa ng mga kurakot at korap na opisyal o operaytor ng katiwalian (binaligtad na patong, na naging popular nang ikuwento ni Dante Madriaga sa Senado ang diumano'y tawag ni Leo San Miguel sa maruming komisyong mapupunta sa Greedy Group Plus Plus)

• noun. amount added to a project's real cost or budget, thereby bloating it, to allow corrupt officials or operators to collect a kickback (transposed form of patong, meaning add-on; a word that became popular when Dante Madriaga testified in the Senate investigations about the term being allegedly used by Leo San Miguel to refer to the commission for the Greedy Group Plus Plus)