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do one's block

do one's block verb: to lose one's temper; to get angry.

Verb

do one's block (third-person singular simple present does one's block, present participle doing one's block, simple past did one's block, past participle done one's block)

  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

Forms of do one's block

third-person singular presentdoes one's block
present participledoing one's block
pastdid one's block
past participledone one's block

Origin of do one's block

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

Questions about do one's block

What does do one's block mean?
Do one's block means to lose one's temper; to get angry.
What part of speech is do one's block?
Do one's block is a verb.
What is the past tense of do one's block?
The past tense of do one's block is did one's block.

Words near do one's block in the dictionary

  1. do of
  2. do off
  3. do one
  4. do one's best
  5. do one's bit
  6. do one's block
  7. do one's business
  8. do one's damnedest
  9. do one's darnedest
  10. do one's duty
  11. do one's ease

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