Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full to the limit; as full as possible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
choke-full .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Quite full; full to capacity; choke-full.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
chock full .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective packed full to capacity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But over a rough and tumble first term chock-full of congressional standoffs and economic crises, hurt feelings and disappointments, the fever some young black professionals caught four years ago seems to have broken into mild support at best, downright apathy at worst.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Trymaine Lee 2012
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Broth-based, low-fat soups, chock-full of veggies help fill you up without packing on the calories.
One For The Table: The Soup Diet One For The Table 2011
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It is chock-full of lessons and worth every penny of its $299 cost.
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It's a central anecdote of the story, which is chock-full of instances of Rogers getting things done and making himself indispensable to big machers such as Gergen and James Baker in Washington, or Jon Corzine, Paulson and Blankfein at Goldman.
Yvette Kantrow: The Chair Man Yvette Kantrow 2011
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My serial Flyover City is a blog-novel, detailing the trials and tribulations of a regular guy living in a world chock-full of super heroes and villians.
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It is, however, exactly the sort of recipe that she likes to share with home cooks her new book, "Cooking in the Moment," is chock-full of such recipes.
White Borscht With Turnips, Savoy Cabbage and Horseradish 2011
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The area, chock-full of cozy pubs, golf courses and Gaelic monuments, has tremendous pulling power and many Germans, French, Dutch and Britons have settled here over the past few decades.
A Luring Wild Otherworldliness John Crowley 2011
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Broth-based, low-fat soups, chock-full of veggies help fill you up without packing on the calories.
One For The Table: The Soup Diet One For The Table 2011
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The mag is chock-full of heartfelt testimonials to the highly regarded English author.
J.G. Ballard-sensei « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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The runways and ramps were chock-full of planes, he said, requiring the pilot to circle for three hours until there was room.
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