Meaning of chawl | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
2. Jaw or cheek.
   UK, dialectal
3. Jowl; cheek; face.
   UK, dialectal

Examples

“I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh⟳!”

“Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.”

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