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chocked | chocker |

As a verb chocked

is (chock).

As an adjective chocker is

(informal) tightly packed, especially with people.

chocked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (chock)

    • chock

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from (etyl) *?okka (compare Breton ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
  • (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
  • Blocks made of either wood, plastic or metal, used to keep a parked aircraft in position.
  • * 2000 , Lindbergh: A Biography , by Leonard Mosley, page 82
    • On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, signaled chocks -away to those on the ground below him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
  • To fill up, as a cavity.
  • * Fuller
    • The woodwork exactly chocketh into joints.
  • (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
    • Derived terms
    * chock full * chocks away * chock-a-block * unchock

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (nautical) Entirely; quite.
    • chock''' home; '''chock aft

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An encounter.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To encounter.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeic.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a dull sound.
  • * 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,
    • She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock . He tried the latch.
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    chocker

    English

    Alternative forms

    * chockers

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Tightly packed, especially with people.
  • * 1947, Charles Brasch, Landfall , Caxton Press, Page 492
    • The place was absolutely packed. It was chocker .
  • * 2001, Brian Thacker, Rule No.5 - No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a tour leader , Allen & Unwin, Page 143
    • The largest of these service chains in Italy is Agip, and these mini-cities in the middle of nowhere are always absolutely chocker with people. Half of Italy must be in these places at any one time.
  • * 2003, Phillip Scott, Gay Resort Murder Shock , Alyson Publishing, Page 155
    • He briskly flicked through the catalogue. "And this seemingly innocent museum is chocker with old airplane parts!"
  • * 2005, Rachael Weiss and Julie Adams, Are We There Yet?: Rach and Jules take to the open road , Allen & Unwin, Page 209
    • Australia is chocker with beaches strait from paradise, and Terrigal is a beach holiday mecca? I'm gobsmacked.
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