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chockablock

/chok-uh-blok/US // ˈtʃɒk əˈblɒk //

洛克布洛克,卡住了,洛克布拉克,洛克布勒

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extremely full; crowded; jammed: a room chockablock with furniture and plants.
    • : Nautical. having the blocks drawn close together, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a crowded manner: books piled chockablock on the narrow shelf.

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Examples

  • I will miss them particularly this second year of not decamping to a chockablock pub to raise a pint.

  • Very little, let’s hope, now that a year chockablock with ugly surprises—a list starting with the coronavirus pandemic—passes behind us.

  • After all, the Republican convention was chockablock with McCain doppelgangers.

  • Quickly the enemy submarine maneuvered closer until the two craft 135 were almost chockablock.