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two-blocking

two-blocking is the present participle and gerund of two-block.

Meaning of two-block

Verb

two-block (third-person singular simple present two-blocks, present participle two-blocking, simple past and past participle two-blocked)

  1. To hoist to the yardarm.
    • He cleared one of the tangled halyards and swiftly two-blocked the flag.1960, The Skipper, volume 20, page 44
  2. (colloquial) To rearrange (one's clothing) to make it look more tidy.
    • […] wore a perfectly two-blocked field scarf and had razor-sharp creases that cut with a surgeon's precision right through the center of seven chevrons and the embroidered emblems on his sleeves.1992, The Leatherneck, volume 75, page 12

Questions about two-blocking

What is two-blocking the present participle and gerund of?
Two-blocking is the present participle and gerund of two-block.

Words near two-blocking in the dictionary

  1. two-bit
  2. two-block
  3. two-block haircut
  4. two-block haircuts
  5. two-blocked
  6. two-blocking
  7. two-blocks
  8. two-body problem
  9. two-body problems
  10. Two-Buck Chuck
  11. two-by-four

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Adapted from Wiktionary: two-blocking (page history and authors); two-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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