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/Sounds like "kah" (as in "car") + "HWEH" + "lah" (as in "lava")/

Meaning

The trunk or boot of a car in Mexico, where you stash groceries, luggage, and everything else that won't fit in the back seat. Every Mexican driver has found something in their cajuela they completely forgot putting there.

Examples

Put the bags in the trunk, they won't fit inside the car.

The trunk is full of stuff I don't even remember putting in there.

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Regional synonyms

A scatterbrained or impulsive person who acts without thinking and consistently makes a mess of things through pure recklessness. In Colombia and Venezuela, the atolondrado is always rushing but somehow always the last to arrive, with everything upside down and no idea what went wrong.