WordNet
n. a platform from which an auctioneer sells; "they put their paintings on the block" [syn: block]
Usage examples of "auction block".
Despite my greed I draw the line at putting family mementos on the auction block.
At once my buttocks were pried apart as they had been on the auction block and I felt a hard thumb pushed in me.
You don't have to judge contests, go on the auction block, or write a thousand words twice a week when there's nothing to write about!
He gazed down at the still, white form draped over the auction block and the men bearing down on her.
No lady would put herself on the auction block as Kelsey had done.
Just standing helpless on the Roman auction block like all the other imports.
He did not even have to see more niggers to know that they would average two thousand dollars per head on the auction block - and that was a low estimate.
John released his grip and let him fall, face forward into the mud, while he himself caught at the edge of the auction block for support.
To place so many on the auction block at Patamoke would destroy all values.
And when he found out what was going on the auction block, he knew that America had only a slim chance of survival and that he could not even trust the young Intelli.