jowl

1. N-COUNT You can refer to someone's lower cheeks as their jowls, especially when they hang down toward their jaw. 麪頰[文學(xué)性] [usu pl]

2. N-COUNT the jaw, esp the lower one 下頜

3. PHRASE If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other. 緊挨著

She and her family have to live cheek by jowl with these people. 她和家人不得不緊挨著這些人住著。