Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chock-full \Chock"-full`\ chockfull \chock"full`\, pred. a. Quite full; full to capacity; choke-full; as, chowder chock-full of clams.
Syn: chockablock(predicate), chockful(predicate), choke-full(predicate), chuck-full(predicate), cram full.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of chock full English)
WordNet
adj. packed full to capacity; "chowder chockablock with pieces of fish" [syn: chockablock(p), chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full]
Usage examples of "chock-full".
Mills bomb turns out to be luscious pepsin-flavored nougat, chock-full of tangy candied cubeb berries, and a chewy camphor-gum center.
His sonar officer, David Hall, was a gem, the chief and his technicians outstanding, and they all understood why he enjoyed kibitzing in the background in that small space chock-full of the most sophisticated electronic gear available.
There was lepidolite here, chock-full of lithium and run through with gallium as well.
How you went down chock-full of ordinary American thoughts and dreams, memories of smoking weed and chasing tail and hanging out and freeway flying with a case of something cold, and how you smuggled back a human-shaped container of pure Salvadorian emptiness.
Chock-full of metal splinters coated in Teflon, propelled by a charge equal to twenty grenades.
It's some kind of smoked doppelbock, chock-full of yummy superoxides: Just inhaling over it makes Manfred feel like there's a fire alarm in his nose screaming danger, Will Robinson!
Also resembling the Arab street, liberals are chock-full of conspiracy theories.
But that bay is just chock-full with fishing boats, as is the entire coastline.
She peered in at the field, whose left side was chock-full of tiny, granular circles each containing a fluorescing clump of DNA, but for the moment her mind wasn't on the task at hand.
It is my understanding that space is chock-full of things like the moon and the asteroids, which are not made of green cheese.
So there were three huge stockpots frying turkeys, two chock-full of crayfish and com on the cob and new potatoes, big pans of jambalaya, soup tureens full of gumbo and etoufee, and thousands of oysters to throw on the grill.
One upstairs ward, once sunny with sash windows from the chair rail to the fifteen-foot ceiling, now as muted and murky as any greenhouse from the encroachment of trees, was chock-full, wall-to-wall with rotting cardboard filing cabinets.
Priana was a sharp cookie, chock-full of questions and a lot of fun to be around.
Ah, such a circus for the eye - this low-ceilinged cave - chock-full of every imaginable kind of packageable and preserved foodstuff, toilet article, and hair accoutrement, ninety percent of which existed not at all in any form whatsoever during the century when I was born.
A high empty office tower, crowded among hundreds of others – an unrented and undeveloped "medical building" which she had chosen herself for their hiding place, deep in the middle of this sprawling ugly southern metropolis – a city chock-full of hospitals and clinics and medical libraries, where they'd be hidden as they did their experiments, like two leaves on a tree.