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block

1. n. the head. Try to get this stuff through your block before the test.

2. n. the auction block. The painting went on the block and sold for nearly fifty-three million dollars.

3. n. a stupid person. (Possibly a back formation on blockhead.) You silly block! Get out of the way.

See:

• a chip off the old block
• a stumbling block
• around the block
• be off the (starting) blocks
• be off the blocks
• been around the block
• block
• block in some place
• block off
• block on
• block out
• block up
• blocked
• blocking and tackling
• chip off the old block
• cock block
• cock-blocking
• do (one's) block
• gapers' block
• go on the block
• have been around the block
• knock block off
• knock someone’s block off
• knock someone's block off
• mental block
• new kid on the block
• on the block
• on the chopping block
• out of the blocks
• put (one's) neck on the block
• put head on the block
• put on the block
• storm out of the blocks
• stumbling block
• the new kid on the block
• writer's block