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单词 chakka jam
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chakka jamn.

Brit. /ˈtʃʌkə dʒɑːm/, /ˈtʃʌkə dʒam/, U.S. /ˈtʃəkə ˌdʒɑm/, /ˈtʃəkə ˌdʒæm/
Forms: 1900s– chakka jam, 1900s– chakka jaam, 1900s– chaka jam, 2000s– chaka jaam.
Origin: A borrowing from Hindi. Etymon: Hindi cakkā jām.
Etymology: < Hindi cakkā jām (1963 or earlier) < cakkā wheel ( < a suffixed form of Sanskrit cakra wheel: see chakra n.) + jām ( < English jam n.1).
Indian English.
The blocking of a road or the deliberate creation of a traffic jam as a form of civilian protest; a blockade.
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1972 Indian Polit. Sci. Rev. Apr. 180 Under the name of Chakka Jam (stopping of wheel), efforts were unsuccessfully made to paralyse the bus service to and from Kota.
1980 Times of India 21 Nov. 1/2 The one-day ‘chakka jaam’ agitation launched by cotton growers..was marred by stone-throwing incidents.
2002 Outlook (New Delhi) 9 Sept. 88/1 You have rastarokos and chakka jams by farmers.
2017 Hindustan Times Newswire (Nexis) 27 Mar. Several agitations have been launched in the last five years to stop the project, including the chakka jam on NH 57 recently.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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