cinderblock

See also: cinder block

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cinder +‎ block.

Adjective

cinderblock (not comparable)

  1. Made of cinder blocks.
    They lived in an old cinderblock apartment building.

Noun

cinderblock (plural cinderblocks)

  1. Alternative form of cinder block.
    • 2007 April 4, Nate Schweber, “Man Queried in Killings of Prostitutes”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 5 June 2015:
      Investigators also searched a shed behind the house that sat next to two automobiles on cinderblocks.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.