chockablock

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Even though buildings are chockablock, the winding pathways nestle so gracefully around the mountain stream that you always feel you're lost somewhere in the woods.

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

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  1. packed full to capacity

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  • Oliver!, it became easy to forget that Dickens's legendary novel is not chockablock with toe-tapping ditties, but is rather a dark, violent and action-packed saga. —  Houston Press | Complete Issue
  • Conventional cemeteries usually squeeze about 1,000 bodies into an acre, so chockablock that the grave liners touch. —  Terrain Magazine
  • "Obviously made with Oscar - and only Oscar - in mind, The Reader is chockablock with some of the most absurd 'prestige' moments I've ever seen in a motion picture," blogs —  GreenCine Daily
  • And that, in addition to being very large, it's also chockablock with traps. —  Joystiq
  • Already the Internet is chockablock with ways to "game" the Geithner plan, all based on taxpayer exposure to nothing approaching a fair or reasonable ratio of risk to reward. —  Home | The New York Observer
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