blockbustv.
/ˈblɒkbʌst/, U.S. /ˈblɑkˌbəst/ Somewhat rare.
transitive. To subject (something) to blockbusting (in either sense). Also intransitive: to engage in blockbusting.
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1943 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 5 Apr. 10/1 The famed Krupp works..are being hammered by Allied flyers, and other great industries in the Reich are being systematically block-busted.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential 61 They are kept out of settled colored residential areas with the same kind of coercion and violence that whites show when their neighborhoods are block-busted by Negroes.
2005 J. N. DeSena Protecting one's Turf (rev. ed.) iv. 53 Some houses are also sold this way, while others are sold through realtors who are trusted not to ‘blockbust’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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