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do one's block en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

A loose usage of do with block (“(slang) head”).

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) To lose one's temper; to get angry.
   • Ma looked out the door agrily, but a little anxiously as well, because she was sensitive about being overheard doing her block by visitors, especially anyone as important as the local undertaker. 1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 113:
   • Dad was […] the man who slaved his guts out to win the status of a landowner, got dead drunk and was carried home from the local pub, and did his block, and shouted and raved, and sometimes bawled like a bull, but at other times was tender with man and beast. 1993, Manning Clark, edited by Michael Cathcart, Manning Clark's History of Australia: Abridged, page 303:
   • I did my block and told him that he was there because I had consented to him being there, he wasn′t part of the interviewing team, and that if he was a smart-arse one more time, there would probably be a fight in the interview room. 2007, Andrew Fraser, Court in the Middle, unnumbered page:
   • He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky. 2003, Dal Stivens, Jimmy Brockett: Portrait of a Notable Australian, page 283:

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