Dictionary Thesaurus Word Dynamo Quotes Reference Translator Spanish

blockbust

[blok-buhst]

Blockbuster® Total Access www.blockbuster.com/FreeTrial Sign Up Today! Free 30 Day Trial. Unlimited Games, Movies & TV Shows.

Blockbuster New Releases www.ask.com/Blockbuster+New+Releases Find Blockbuster New Releases Online at Ask.com. Try It Now!

Watch Movies at Netflix www.netflix.com/ TV Shows & Movies. Instant Play. Free Trial.

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to subject or be subjected to blockbusting: Developers blockbusted in order to buy up the entire area.

DVD Rentals Online www.local.com/ Check Out Local.com To Find DVD Rentals Online In Your Area!

Origin:
Americanism; by back formation from blockbuster or blockbusting

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source

|

Link To blockbust

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Blockbust is one of our favorite verbs.

So is peculate. Does it mean:

to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.

to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.

LEARN MORE FUN, UNUSUAL VERBS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Word Dynamo Rating For Blockbust

People who can define Blockbust may know 45,520 words, as many as a 12th grader.

How many words do you know?

Want blockbust ad-free? Click here!

Quote Of The Day

"Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping the turf so as to get at what is fertile beneath. It would be amusing to carry the simile further. Those bulbs that flower in the sand and wither! The gay fiction annual that has to be planted again every year! Those experimental plants from Russia, France, and Greenwich Village that are always getting winter killed—confound 'em!—is it worth while planting them again? The stocky perennial that keeps coming up and coming up—so easy to grow and so ugly. Scarlet sage that gives a touch of fiery sin to the edge of the suburbanite's concrete walk! And then the good flowers—as honest as they are beautiful! The well-ordered gar den! The climbing rose that escapes and is the most beautiful of all!"

-Henry Seidel Canby

Partners:Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Sendori Thesaurus

Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.

About Privacy Policy Terms of Use API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Help

Please Login or Sign Up to use the Favorites feature

Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature