Two-block

verb, slang

verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To hoist to the yardarm.

    "He cleared one of the tangled halyards and swiftly two-blocked the flag."

  2. 2
    To rearrange (one's clothing) to make it look more tidy. colloquial

    "[…] wore a perfectly two-blocked field scarf and had razor-sharp creases that cut with a surgeon's precision right through the center of seven chevrons and the embroidered emblems on his sleeves."

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"He cleared one of the tangled halyards and swiftly two-blocked the flag."

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