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Barrier caused by unusually drab old rugby player
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roadblock
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that blocks or obstructs a road. 2 An obstacle or impediment. vb. (context colloquial English) To prevent, hinder.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Roadblock is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's Heavy Machine Gunner and debuted in 1984. Roadblock is one of the most prominent African-Americans in the series. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940, from road + block (n.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB set ▪ Police set up roadblocks circling Harare and prevented thousands of people from gathering in the city centre. ▪ Police did nothing to stop them from burning dozens of homes and setting up roadblocks to prevent ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective; "intolerance is a barrier to understanding" [syn: barrier ] a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic ...
Usage examples of roadblock.
United States 7th Infantry Division were manning a hastily erected roadblock on the dirt road paralleling Korean National Route 1.
There were only two American divisions in the Seoul area, the 7th and the 1st Marine, and the armed Americans at the roadblock were not Marines.
When Jennings got close to the roadblock, he suddenly stopped the jeep and raised his hands over his head.
Allen III, a somewhat plump, pleasant-faced twenty-seven-year-old who was commanding officer of Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry, 7th Infantry Division, was hesitantly pleased with his current mission, the establishment and operation of a roadblock on a road south of Suwon.
Charley Company roadblock and Division Headquarters, none of them direct.
MP-5 he had put on the floorboards and told the men in back to be ready to shoot at the roadblock as they rammed through.
As they came closer, Murdock saw that both roadblock rigs were sedans.
The weapons in back of the six-by kept yammering as the truck plowed past the rest of the roadblock and slammed down the highway, picking up speed.
Our objective is that first Loyalist roadblock up the river about forty miles away.
We should be able to move in and take out the personnel, then borrow one of their vehicles and charge right through that second roadblock down the way.
SEALs turned around and fired at the roadblock they had just come through.
It had a friendly growth of brush and trees they could use for cover as they passed the roadblock half a mile over and kept right on going.
We travel down that way, and as soon as we spot the roadblock ahead, the three of us will get off while you and your driver continue on.
Five miles out of the main port of town, they spotted the roadblock ahead.
The guards at the first roadblock would be sure to radio their men down here that the famous dancer was coming.