blok
- noun
- /blɒk/
- Slang
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tipo
- Every blok at the pub was discussing the football match.
Examples
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The blok in the blue shirt is my friend from college.
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That blok over there always tells the best jokes.
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Two days later, Blok recorded a conversation about the relationship of the intellectual to politics.
Academic text (1991) -
A few weeks later, Blok read the same group his lecture on anti-humanism.
Academic text (1991) -
This, Blok argued, was not only short-sighted but immoral.
Academic text (1991) -
The first response to such reasoning is to rekindle the famous verses that Aleksandr Blok, the outstanding Russian poet, addressed to Europe at the turn of the century.
Academic text (1991) -
Gorky, who was present at the meeting, suggested that humanism would have to retreat before the advent of the "new," a position that infuriated "the professors," among whom Blok included Levinson.
Academic text (1991) -
The sketchings in her notebooks, Fradkin noted, resembled the work of the nineteenth-century Russian impressionist Sergei Blok.
Fiction book (2000) -
For the next ten years, he wrote widely in St. Petersburg on painting and literature, publishing in daily papers as well as in the leading literary journals Vesy (the Scales) and Apolon, where his work appeared alongside that of people such as Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmatova.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
An informal word for a man or boy
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1.1
People use it for a boy or young man when they speak in a friendly way
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8.1
A man or boy used in informal speech
185
8.0
A casual word for a man
113
7.7
A male friend or a brother
106
8.2
A man, especially in informal British English
83
5.6
A friendly man or boy often used in Britain
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9.5
A friendly word for a man or boy
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8.8
A friendly informal word for a man or boy in Britain
How Informal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blok comes from the British slang bloke and probably from a Romani word loke meaning 'man'. A helpful way to remember blok is to imagine a solid 'block' of a man, a plain, friendly 'guy', so the word means an ordinary man.