What the heck does block mean?

Question

Is this some kinda slang? Wt heck..

Answer 1

Do you mean "Block User" as seen on Yahoo! Answers? It means if you want you can prevent a user from looking at your questions and answers or emailing you, simply click on the words.

According to the Urban Dictionary, it can mean the neighborhood where you live, a brick of cocaine, or a useful tool on MSN messenger.

The standard definition of the noun is, according to the Free Dictionary, as follows:

block (blk)
n.
1.
a. A solid piece of a hard substance, such as wood, having one or more flat sides.
b. Such a piece used as a construction member or as a support.
c. Such a piece upon which chopping or cutting is done: a butcher's block.
d. Such a piece upon which persons are beheaded.
e. One of a set of small wooden or plastic pieces, such as a cube, bar, or cylinder, used as a building toy.
f. Printing A large amount of text.
g. Sports A starting block.
2. A stand from which articles are displayed and sold at an auction: Many priceless antiques went on the block.
3. A mold or form on which an item is shaped or displayed: a hat block.
4. A substance, such as wood or stone, that has been prepared for engraving.
5.
a. A pulley or a system of pulleys set in a casing.
b. An engine block.
6. A bloc.
7. A set of like items, such as shares of stock, sold or handled as a unit.
8. A group of four or more unseparated postage stamps forming a rectangle.
9. Canadian A group of townships in an unsurveyed area.
10.
a. A usually rectangular section of a city or town bounded on each side by consecutive streets.
b. A segment of a street bounded by consecutive cross streets and including its buildings and inhabitants.
11. A large building divided into separate units, such as apartments.
12. A length of railroad track controlled by signals.
13. The act of obstructing.
14. Something that obstructs; an obstacle.
15.
a. Sports An act of bodily obstruction, as of a player or ball.
b. Football Legal interference with an opposing player to clear the path of the ball carrier.
16. Medicine Interruption, especially obstruction, of a normal physiological function: nerve block.
17. Psychology A sudden cessation of speech or a thought process without an immediate observable cause, sometimes considered a consequence of repression. Also called mental block.
18. Slang The human head: threatened to knock my block off.
19. A blockhead.

Answer 2

Block is a normal English word found in the dictionary used in many contexts. It could be used as slang as is quite easy to imagine alternative meanings depending on context. You need to give the context you had it in though.

Answer 3

It usually has the word head following it!!

Answer 4

As in blocked user? It means you aren't permitting someone into your thing. : |