chockablock

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It is hard to believe that Time had anything to do with popularizing chockablock, a common enough word of nautical origin.

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  • It is hard to believe that Time had anything to do with popularizing chockablock, a common enough word of nautical origin. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
  • She closed her eyes for a second, then turned and walked away from her colleague. —  The Best Revenge
  • The Monopoly game was still in full swing, although Bish had all his property mortgaged and was offering to do chores for people instead of paying rent when he landed on a St. James Place or a North Carolina Avenue chockablock with hotels. —  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • Sitting in his chockablock shop off Great Portland Street, wiry Peter Goodcastle tugged at the tuft of wispy hair above his ear and below his bald head and nodded grimly at his visitor's words, just audible amid the sound of Her Majesty's Public Works 'grimy steam hammer breaking up the brick road to repair a water main. —  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • The room numbers made little sense and the building was chockablock with culs-de-sac and dead ends. —  Cold Case
 

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