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blox

blox is the plural of block.

Meaning of block

Noun

block (plural blocks)

  1. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
    • a block of ice; a block of stone
    1. A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
      • Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.
    2. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
      • Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    3. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
      • He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    4. (dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
    5. A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.

See all 62 meanings of block

Verb

blox (third-person singular simple present bloxxes, present participle bloxxing, simple past and past participle bloxxed)

  1. (slang, transitive) To kill (a character) in a Roblox game, causing the blocks that make up it to fall to the ground.
    • Blox - To kill a player in a Roblox game. / Bloxxed - When a player’s health reaches zero and the player’s Robloxian falls apart.[2021 May 14, “Roblox”, in Gaming Buzzwords: Understanding Your Gamer (Safer Schools), version 1.0.2, Belfast: Ineqe Safeguarding Group, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2021
    • Despite drawing on classic scary scenarios, this game is more silly than scary. You all run around and try to avoid getting bloxxed.2023 February 7, Dynamo [pseudonym], “Insane Elevator!”, in Roblox: Create and Conquer!, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic, →ISBN, page 56

Forms of blox

third-person singular presentbloxxes
present participlebloxxing
past participlebloxxed
pastbloxxed

Origin of blox

From blocks (plural of block) with -x replacing the /ks/ sound. The verb is after Roblox.

Questions about blox

What does blox mean?
Blox means to kill (a character) in a Roblox game, causing the blocks that make up it to fall to the ground.
What is blox the plural of?
Blox is the plural of block.
What part of speech is blox?
Blox is a verb.
What is the past tense of blox?
The past tense of blox is bloxxed.

Words near blox in the dictionary

  1. blowzier
  2. blowziest
  3. blowzily
  4. blowziness
  5. blowzy
  6. blox
  7. Bloxam
  8. Bloxams
  9. Bloxham
  10. Bloxhams
  11. Bloxom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blox (page history and authors); block (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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