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block
noun- a prison segregation unit UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 28, 1996
- prison US
- He paused. Stick was looking at him now. Cornell said, “You from the block, aren’t you?” — Elmore Leonard, Stick, p. 98, 1983
- marijuana or hashish compressed in a block UK
- “Mmm,” replied Sundays distractedly, still breaking down, measuring and bagging his blocks. — Diran Abedayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 21, 2000
- a measured quantity of morphine UK
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 33, 1992
- a ban, an embargo UK
Used in phrases like PUT A BLOCK ONPUT THE BLOCK ON - — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 321, 1970
- used as a retort after being insulted US
- — Judi Sanders, Kickin’ like Chicken with the Couch Commander, p. 3, 1992
- a watch US
Circus and carnival usage. - He had an old dollar block [watch] and a few picks and he’d lay around the yard and every fish [new convict] that come in, if the fish had anything he’d con him out of it if he could. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 285, 1972
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 26, 1981
▶ do your block; do the block
to lose control; to lose your temper AUSTRALIA, 1907- Cripes, I just about done me block that time I nearly king hit that greasy drongo! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 39, 1968
- [H]e said a few things my vaida back in Oz that really made me do my block!!! — Barry Humphries, Bazza pulls it of!, 1971
▶ knock someone’s block off
used as a threat of personal violence UK, 1984- DENISE: He don’t look at other girls when I’m with him. MAM: Don’t he? DENISE: No, I’d knock his bloody block off. — Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, The Royle Family, 1999
▶ on the block- engaged in prostitution on the street US, 1941
- Have all the players and working girls smiling on her, lapping up the news that Inez been put out on the block again, handed over her little black book and gone back in harness. — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 182, 1977
- A whore had to be tough, because if she start off at sixteen out there on the block, by the time she’s twenty-four or twenty-five, she’s done for. — John Allen, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, p. 102, 1977
- subjected to serial rape NEW ZEALAND
- Home had told the girl: “You’ve got between now and the time I finish this cigarette until you go into the bedroom and go on the block.” — Truth, p. 5, 4 December 1973
▶ put a block on; put the block on- to veto, ban, or embargo something UK, 1961
Literally, to apply “a block” (a ban). - in prison, to reinforce the regulations UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 93, 1996
▶ use your block
to act wisely AUSTRALIA- “Good enough, if he uses his block, to get a long way,” asserted Joyce, now gathering glasses, which Bony proceeded to wash and polish. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 102, 1959
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