two-block
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5.2
- noun
- US
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dos cuadras
- The coffee shop is just two blocks from my apartment.
- two blocks away
- walk two blocks
- just two blocks
If you walk more than two blocks in boat shoes, your toes are going to be destroyed.
- If you walk more than two blocks in boat shoes, your toes are going to be destroyed.
- I ran across the field, went out the the back gate and I went to my homeboy's house who lived two blocks away from the high school campus.
- which was about two blocks to the West, two blocks east of where we were.
Examples
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No, I was born just two blocks from this studio.
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Oh, I'm just two blocks away.
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And the first one we found was two blocks from our house.
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Oh, you know, we're two blocks from the school.
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This map says we're only two blocks away.
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Well, it's down the road, two blocks over on my left.
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Go two blocks down and take a right.
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The red line, I told him, would take him to within two blocks of his hotel.
Fiction book (1991) -
I drove the last two blocks to our house on the corner.
Fiction book (1990) -
Apparently we're neighbors; my house is two blocks from yours in Montreal.
Fiction book (1996)
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Etymology
The word two-block is made from two ('two') and block ('the part of a city between two streets'), so it simply means a distance of two city blocks and is used to say how far one place is from another.