Meaning & use
Chockablock
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Extremely full or crowded; packed tightly together.
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The market was chockablock with shoppers on Saturday morning.
Her bookshelf was chockablock with novels she hadn't yet read.
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Originally a nautical term describing two blocks of a tackle pulled so close together they can move no further; often written 'chock-a-block.'
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