Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

do one's block

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: do one's block
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To lose one's temper; to get angry.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"Ma looked out the door agrily, but a little anxiously as well, because she was sensitive about being overheard doing her block by visitors, especially anyone as important as the local undertaker."
"Dad was […] the man who slaved his guts out to win the status of a landowner, got dead drunk and was carried home from the local pub, and did his block, and shouted and raved, and sometimes bawled like a bull, but at other times was tender with man and beast."
"He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky."
"I did my block and told him that he was there because I had consented to him being there, he wasn′t part of the interviewing team, and that if he was a smart-arse one more time, there would probably be a fight in the interview room."

Etymology

A loose usage of do with block (“(slang) head”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

does one's block (present, singular) doing one's block (participle, present) did one's block (past) done one's block (participle, past)

Questions

What does do one's block mean?: To lose one's temper; to get angry.
Where does do one's block come from?: A loose usage of do with block (“(slang) head”).

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