{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY February 23, 2019 chockablock

WORD OF THE DAY February 23, 2019

chockablock    adjective | CHAH-kuh-blahk     Definition   1 : brought close together   2 : very full   Scroll down for more about chockablock      TRENDING NOW: crosshair feckless emergency national emergency SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 2/22/19       'Minion' — Video Word of the Day 2/22/2019     'Hoopla' — Video Word of the Day 2/21/2019       'Obsequious' — Video Word of the Day 2/20/2019         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   What did you just call me?! A Quiz   Never be caught off guard     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Chockablock started out as a nautical term. A block is a metal or wooden case with one or more pulleys inside. Sometimes, two or more blocks are used as part of a rope and pulley system called a "block and tackle" to provide a mechanical advantage—as, for example, when hoisting a sail on a traditional sailing ship. When the rope is pulled as far as it will go, the blocks are tight together and are said to be chockablock. Non-nautical types associated the chock in chockablock with chock-full, which goes back to Middle English chokkefull, meaning "full to the limit" (a figurative use of "full to choking"). We thus gave chockablock the additional meaning "filled up." Chockablock can also be an adverb meaning "as close or as completely as possible," as in "families living chockablock" or the seemingly redundant "chockablock full."     Examples of CHOCKABLOCK   "The one-square-mile borough is chockablock with shops, restaurants, small businesses, and a bustling downtown." — Katie Park, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 Jan. 2019   "The release schedule for the next few months of music is chockablock with new voices, classic names, and bands in the process of transitioning from the first category to the second." — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Sept. 2017   Name That Synonym   Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of chockablock that means "very full": _ r _ m _ u _.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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