roadblock
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈroʊdˌblɑk/
:
puesto de control
- The police have set up a roadblock to check all vehicles entering the festival area.
- set up roadblocks
- stop at a roadblock
- search cars at roadblocks
And he said you have got to get Pedro got to get the doctor, he'll die and said, and they got the roadblocks all blocks going north.
- And he said you have got to get Pedro got to get the doctor, he'll die and said, and they got the roadblocks all blocks going north.
- We'd we'd fuel up the night before, I'd take fuel with me and then he would show me where they have a roadblock.
Examples
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We watched them set up roadblocks to screen trucks for illegal logs.
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Up ahead: Parked cop cars block both lanes of the main road -- a roadblock checkpoint for all traffic.
Fiction book (1997) -
"I had to get through a police roadblock," she said.
Fiction book (1994) -
I I was driving along Parliament St and a police roadblock just stopped me.
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On the access road, several state police cars are setting up a roadblock.
Fiction book (2001) -
Requesting roadblock units on all lanes.
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A large and angry mob has gathered at the roadblock to the bridge.
Fiction book (1998) -
We set up a roadblock on 395.
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We've also learned that roadblocks are being set up... Around the perimeter of the city.
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Goniwe and his companions disappeared after they had been stopped at a roadblock near Blue Water Bay.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
151
3.4
A place at a border where security stops and checks people and vehicles
83
4.8
A barrier put up to block a road or entrance
43
4.4
A thing that blocks a passage like a pipe or artery
38
4.1
Something that blocks a pipe or blood vessel and stops flow
A thing placed across a road or entrance to stop people entering and vehicles passing
A block that keeps a vehicle from moving past the end of a track
A sudden problem that stops progress and causes delay
Antonyms
Compounds
How Blocked
Surface Forms
Etymology
Roadblock originally meant a physical barrier put across a road to 'stop' or 'check' vehicles, often by police, so it describes a barrier used to control traffic.