chock-a-block
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.86 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adv
Example Sentences
- ""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.""
- "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."
- "The Piney Creek General Store in Story, Wyoming, is chock-a-block filled with an enormous range of miscellaneous paraphernalia that includes groceries, gourmet cooking ingredients, beer and wine, cast-iron cookware, and kitschy souvenirs and gifts."
- "One room was chock-a-block full, to the ceiling; you couldn't get into that bedroom."
- "The place is chock-a-block full of old empty bottles on shelves, a collection from around the world."
- "The quay teemed chock-a-block with porters, officials, clumps of overcoated people under umbrellas."
Inflected Forms
more chock-a-block (comparative)
most chock-a-block (superlative)