block

noun

Published on April 10, 2016, 5:30 a.m.

a city block, especially as a locus of activity (e.g. hanging out, drug-dealing, etc.)

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Collocates on lock²², rock¹⁴, glock¹¹, weight¹¹, guap¹⁰, cock⁷, slang⁶, cop⁶, trap⁶, hot⁶, D⁶, pop⁶, tool⁶, shot-caller⁵, shot⁵, Mo City⁵, 12⁴, spray up⁴, push⁴, roll⁴, move⁴, shotta⁴, dip⁴, pusher⁴, 5-0⁴, air out⁴, tote³, rep³, fin'³, drop³, dime³, Chi-town³, street-sweep³, flake³, hood³, cavi³, serve³, trife³, po-po³, hustle³, thugged-out³, 64³, sheisty³, chop³, threads³, homie³, on lock³, hoe³, and shit³, fresh³, bitch³, corner³, Clover³, grind², hip-hop², strapped up², package², pump², white girl², whip², ride², boulder², rock², stack², broccoli², G², snitch², 20², spot², peep out², wet², rims², chronic², clock², cluck-head², crack rock², dead², dog², dope², ends², fetti², finna², four pound², shorty², Calico², nuff², yac², 187², beat², bop², cake², fly², fully², H-town², hit switches², homeboy², hooptie², hops², knot², mail², mayne², narc², nick², paid², shotty², sick², scrilla², stack², bread², hit a lick², slang², slug², son², white², AK, all about, ayo, Backwoods, bae, bang, bar, Bed-Stuy, biscuit, bling, blow, BM, boogie-down, bopper, boss, brick, bruh, bubblegoose, buck, Bucktown, yay, bust, candy, candy, chain, chicken, chicken, chromed-out, cock-diesel, cock-block, cold, cool, dump, gangbang, geah, H, hard white, head, heat, heron, honey, hood, hootie hoo, hustle, hustler, ice cream, icy, ish, j, j's, jawn, John Blaze, jook, kicks, ki, knot, let off, let off, yayo, loc'd, loc, mack, MAK 90, max, Medina, mob, murk, crack pipe, on smash, on swoll, rap, squally, squeeze, stick-up kid, stripes, stunt on, sucker, swerve, the Bay, your ass is grass, third coast, thuggish, thump, trap, tree, trife, trill, triple gold, trip, tryna, 20, twist, uzi, V-12, V.A., weed, what it do, what's crackin', whistle, white-wall, wodie, bumrush, bump, burner, Cali, bling, beef, O, dough, drop-top, DT, dime sack, drop, clown, crack, Cutty, clique up, def, deuce deuce, Escalade, fa sheezy, figures, 44, fuckboy, gank, ghost, go hard, grimy, ox, paper, papes, Phillie, Piru, puff, punk, QB, Range, rapper, rap, re-up, represent, ride, ride, rolly, run a train, sawed-off, scrill, shout-out, snatch, snow, the A, slab, crunk, 3-wheel, yo, gangsta, 10, 24-7, 24-7-365, diss, game, Zoe Pound, Dutch, diesel, cop, steel, spit, simp, dis, bwoy, skeeze, true dat, skrt, flavor, shife, make moves, crew, G-ride, maintain, nickel, player-hate, playa-made, pump, rep on, spark, straight, everything is everything, on the grind, work, yam, word, sherm, shit, stunt, yo, telly, Vogue, uptown, fed, double R, push, bust, dub, pop, cream, toolie, 9, gully, 24-7, thot, bang, rhyme, clip, pack, 25 with an L, 4, 41st side, 50, 7:30, 808, A-town

Etymology pre hip-hop, from the late 1700s

Holonyms hood

Meronyms corner

Related concepts ghetto

Rhymes on lock²⁴, rock⁶, cock⁶, rocks⁶, glock³, drop³, gwops², lot², cops², gwop², hot², Hops², stop², jock, knot, cocked, hip-hop, top, bops, box, crack rock, hip hop, glocks, Hop, locked, shot, obnoxious, spot, chop, crack rocks

Timeline

1979 Kurtis Blow "Christmas Rappin'" [Christmas Rappin']
The beat was thumping on the block
1983 Fresh 3 MC's "Fresh" [Fresh]
Sheeepskins and bombers up and down the block
1984-03-27 Run-D.M.C. "Rock Box (B-Boy Mix)" [Run-D.M.C.]
He'll jock the def beat all around the block

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