cinderblock

See also: cinder block

English

Alternative forms

  • cinder-block

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 New York Times‎[1]:
      Investigators also searched a shed behind the house that sat next to two automobiles on cinderblocks.
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