Definition
Tightly packed.
In Context
- "Books on etymology lay among Tamil poetry and volumes on religion were cheek by jowl with science fiction."
- "The universal bohios (palm-leaved, thatched huts) are cheek by jowl with each other, right to the water's edge where they are often linked to each other by narrow planks across inlets and creeks."
- "For the magazine format, bringing together as it does a range of authors, topics and kinds of article into a single but serialized text, offers to twentieth-century readers a cheek by jowl structure which alerts us to the nuances of difference — categories of gender, genre, class, ideology, discourse — which allegedly more seamless texts are claimed to repress."
- "It was sprinkled with houses, some dilapidated, some newer, some cheek by jowl, others sitting on wide parcels of land."
See Also
- chockablock