英语词汇“on the blocks”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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on the blocks

P11. U.S. slang. on the block (also occasionally on the blocks): (working) as a prostitute.Probably as an extended use of sense 13b. However, see also sense 18a and to be on the street, to be on the streets at street n. and adj. Phrases 4b.

1941 Pittsburgh Courier 3 May 7/6 He was the kind of a guy who put women on the spot if he couldn't put 'em on the block.

1970 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness (1973) 170 The girls all got knocked-up and set up homes, got married, went on the block or on welfare.

2007 C. C. Robinson From Classroom to Corner 162 Young girls and older women, they was prostituting together... The youngest one was 12 years old on the block and she died, oh, about a couple of weeks after her birthday.

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单词	on the blocks
释义	> as lemmas on the blocks P11. U.S. slang. on the block (also occasionally on the blocks): (working) as a prostitute.Probably as an extended use of sense 13b. However, see also sense 18a and to be on the street, to be on the streets at street n. and adj. Phrases 4b. Π 1941 Pittsburgh Courier 3 May 7/6 He was the kind of a guy who put women on the spot if he couldn't put 'em on the block. 1970 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness (1973) 170 The girls all got knocked-up and set up homes, got married, went on the block or on welfare. 2007 C. C. Robinson From Classroom to Corner 162 Young girls and older women, they was prostituting together... The youngest one was 12 years old on the block and she died, oh, about a couple of weeks after her birthday. extracted from blockn.¹ < as lemmas
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