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ˈtʃɒk əˈblɒkchock·ablock

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. chockablock(p), chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram fulladjective

    packed full to capacity

    "chowder chockablock with pieces of fish"

Wiktionary

  1. chockablockadverb

    In a crowded manner; as completely or closely as possible.

  2. chockablockadjective

    (of a ship's hoisting tackle) Having the blocks drawn close together so no further movement is possible, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.

  3. chockablockadjective

    Jammed tightly together; very crowded; completely filled or stuffed.

    Some of Sardinia's gorgeous seaside towns have lately been invaded by builders who erected chockablock housing that catered to middle-income tourists but threatened to spoil the landscape.

  4. Etymology: chock + a + block

Wikipedia

  1. chockablock

    Chock-A-Block is a BBC children's television programme, created by Michael Cole and Nick Wilson. It was first shown in 1981 and repeated through to 1989 and shown as part of the children's programme cycle See-Saw (the "new" name for the cycle originally known as Watch with Mother). "Chock-A-Block" was an extremely large yellow computer, modelled to resemble a mainframe of the time; it filled the entire studio and provided the entire backdrop for the show. The presenter of the show played the part of a technician maintaining the computer. There were two presenters, Fred Harris ("Chock-A-Bloke") and Carol Leader ("Chock-A-Girl"), but only one appeared in each episode. At the start of the show, the presenter would drive around the studio towards the machine in a small yellow electric car, the chock a truck, before saying the catchphrase "Chock-A-Bloke (or Girl), checking in!"). The presenter would then use the machine to find out about a particular topic. The name "chock-a-block" was derived from the machine's ability to read data from "blocks" – which were just that, physical blocks painted different colours. A typical show would include dialogue from the presenter, a brief clip played on Chock-a-block's video screen, and the presenter recording a song on Chock-a-block's audio recorder (which resembled the reel-to-reel tape drives used on actual mainframes, but with a design below to cause the reels to resemble the eyes of a smiling face). The presenter Fred Harris went on to present the serious computing programme Micro Live and to become a personality strongly associated with computers in the public eye. According to the Kaleidoscope 'Lost Shows' database, eight out of thirteen episodes are no longer in the BBC archives, however the whole of one of these and parts of a second survive only as domestic video recordings.

ChatGPT

  1. chockablock

    Chockablock refers to a state or condition where something is completely filled or crowded, leaving no room for anything else. It comes from nautical terminology but is now used in everyday language to describe something that is overflowing or packed tightly.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Chockablockadjective

    hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of chockablock in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of chockablock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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  • chockablockSpanish
  • ಚಾಕ್ಬ್ಲಾಕ್Kannada
  • битком набитый, переполненныйRussian

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