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▪ I. chocker, v.|ˈtʃɒkə(r)|
[? f. chock n.1 + -er1.]
trans. In the game of Patience: to block (a card, or the player).
1887M. W. Jones Games of Patience 9 If the cards come out unfavourably, you often have to put high upon low ones, at the imminent peril of chockering. Ibid. 20 Care and judgment are required here, not to place a card which will chocker the one below it. Ibid. 47 You are, in Patience parlance, ‘chockered’. 1892‘L. Hoffmann’ Patience Games 5 When the player reaches a point at which he can make no further progress, he is said to be ‘blocked’, or, less elegantly, ‘chockered’.
▪ II. chocker, a. slang (orig. Naval).|ˈtʃɒkə(r)|
Also chocka, chokker.
[Abbr. of chock-a-block (see chock adv. 1 c).]
‘Fed up’; extremely disgruntled.
1942Gen 1 Sept. 13/1 When Jenny the Wren is fed up with the world she is ‘chokker’. 1943Hunt & Pringle Service Slang 22 Chocker, this is the sailor's way of saying he is fed up or browned off. 1945‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor xiv. 142 Says she's chocka with being blonde, and she'll be brown again by the time I see her. 1958F. Norman Bang to Rights iii. 130 I'm a little chocker of this place [sc. prison]. |