chawl noun3 •A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh! — 2016 •(dialect, UK) Jaw or cheek. •(dialect, UK) Jowl; cheek; face. formschawls