Chock-a-block

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of chockablock. alt-of, alternative

    ""Parking at the railheads, Morpeth and so on, is just totally chock-a-block now. You won't get a parking space in Morpeth [station car park] after 0730, so we really need to be providing a service at these local stations.""

Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of chockablock. alt-of, alternative

    "The first was my experience of motoring, paddling, and poling a dugout canoe through the Equatorial African swamplands that were once inhabited by people who called themselves Nunu and being struck by the astonishing array of micro-environments packed chock-a-block into a region only 40 kilometers long by 20 kilometers wide."

Adverb
  1. 1
    as completely as possible wordnet

Synonyms

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chockfull

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"Mountaineering is chock-a-block with terms that never need translating, because every mountaineer adopts them."

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