Blocker Meaning
/ˈblɒkəː/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAgent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.
nounAgent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else., One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
Sentence Examples
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She takes a beta-____ medication to control her high blood pressure.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The football player was an excellent ____ for his whole team today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English blocker, blokker, bloker, blokkere, equivalent to block + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Likewise, any connections shared between your child (the blocker) and the user being blocked will also be broken."
— 2013, Elizabeth Laugeson, The Science of Making Friends:
"Sometimes your sales progress skids to a halt. We've all met more blockers than we'd care to. Some are assigned by the company to filter services […]"
— 1992, Joan Guiducci, Joan Guiducci's power calling, page 49:
"Blockers can optimize the development of preferred physical characteristics. In trans girls, blockers initiated prior to the development of male secondary sex characteristics will effectively prevent voice deepening, skeletal enlargement, and penile enlargement."
— 2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 443:
"Because in 1937 Benjamin is still an apprentice, he remains bound to the Eastern Finland Hat Factory. […] Benjamin now does much of the same work as the master cutters and blockers and enjoys their grudging approval of his skills."
— 2019, John B. Simon, Strangers in a Stranger Land, page 218:
"For some inexplicable reason, remote controls are allowed only on D block (the drug-free block). Result? D blockers trade their remotes for drugs. Prison logic."
— 2003, Jeffrey Archer, A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She takes a beta-____ medication to control her high blood pressure.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The football player was an excellent ____ for his whole team today.