Crocker vs Chocker - What's the difference?
crocker | chocker |
(informal) Tightly packed, especially with people.
* 1947, Charles Brasch, Landfall , Caxton Press, Page 492
* 2001, Brian Thacker, Rule No.5 - No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a tour leader , Allen & Unwin, Page 143
* 2003, Phillip Scott, Gay Resort Murder Shock , Alyson Publishing, Page 155
* 2005, Rachael Weiss and Julie Adams, Are We There Yet?: Rach and Jules take to the open road , Allen & Unwin, Page 209
As a proper noun crocker
is .As an adjective chocker is
(informal) tightly packed, especially with people.crocker
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See also
*crokerReferences
*Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001] (etymology)chocker
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Alternative forms
* chockersAdjective
(en adjective)- The place was absolutely packed. It was chocker .
- 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.
- He briskly flicked through the catalogue. "And this seemingly innocent museum is chocker with old airplane parts!"
- Australia is chocker with beaches strait from paradise, and Terrigal is a beach holiday mecca? I'm gobsmacked.