Definitions

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  • verb vulgar, slang To make impossible another's intended goal of sexual intercourse.
  • verb vulgar, slang, by extension To prevent someone from achieving a goal, aggressively getting in the way.
  • noun slang A person who deliberately or inadvertently makes impossible another's intended goal of sexual intercourse.
  • noun slang, by extension Something designed to prevent one from achieving a goal (e.g. an intentionally difficult level of video game).

Etymologies

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From cock + block.

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Examples

  • Similarly, yesterday's move by Dean was also a "cockblock," and while Renshaw responded in kind I always say "Let he who is without 'cockblocking' block the first cock."

    BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Not that anybody necessarily owed Hincapie the jersey, but it was a "cockblock" nonetheless.

    BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Then my pathetic friends have the gall to come up and cockblock me, demanding I give them a ride back to their house.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

  • Then my pathetic friends have the gall to come up and cockblock me, demanding I give them a ride back to their house.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

  • She was the type who would cockblock endangered pandas at the zoo.

    Assholes Finish First Tucker Max 2010

  • I only hope that in his rush to capitalize on his Tour victory by trademarking the "fingerbang" he doesn't neglect his signature "cockblock," as practiced on teammate Andreas Kloden during stage 17 to Le Grand-Bornand.

    Weird Style: Cast-Offs and Bolt-Ons BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Yet despite this statewide cockblock, California's government and voters have perpetually stood by their dysfunctional - and 100% legal - gay marriage options.

    Steven Shehori: The Prop 8 Monologues, Vol. 2 of 2: The Law is Gay 2009

  • Morever, Simeoni also believes that Lance Armstrong may be behind the snub, since they've got an ongoing feud and Armstrong did cockblock him on that Tour stage back in 2004.

    The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Compression BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • As a simultaneous circlejerk and collective cockblock, the scene was both Escheresque and Kafkaesque.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008

  • Reader comment: Mateusz Pozar in Sweden is among many BB readers who wrote in to say they're getting the same cockblock message ( "We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States."), and asks,

    Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives 2005

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  • Also known as the C-Block.

    June 16, 2007

  • cf: bundling board and chastity belt

    June 16, 2007

  • The urban dictionary has 29 definitions for this word. How about this one - "a person who interferes with one's sexual intentions with another person". I had no idea.

    June 17, 2007