Definitions for roadblock

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roadblock road·block

Spelling: [rohd-blok]

IPA: /ˈroʊdˌblɒk/

Roadblock is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 330 anagrams from letters in roadblock (abcdkloor).

Definitions for roadblock

noun

1. an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
2. an obstruction on a road, as a fallen tree or a pile of fallen rocks.
3. a hastily built barricade, as of barbed wire, erected across a road to hold up the advance of an enemy.
4. an action, condition, etc., that obstructs progress toward an objective:

verb (used with object)

1. to halt or obstruct with or as if with a roadblock.

Origin of roadblock

First recorded in 1935-40; road + block

Examples for roadblock

Ten yards past the roadblock he turned around and looked at Malone.

The roadblock was an example of how quickly the reality on the ground is changing.

I'm sure the Cassylians don't want to advertise their bad sportsmanship so there won't be anything as crude as a roadblock.

For over a decade, those trying to make better sunscreen found a roadblock at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Not far from the drop-off point, the team ran into their first roadblock.

Removal of this roadblock has high priority in my legislative recommendations.

We knew as we approached that this roadblock was supposed to be one of the most difficult to get through in the region.

Malone got the car going; the roadblock was lifted for him and he went on by.

Then, tonight, you took the chance of finding the roadblock.

As Mitchell was looking to expand his enterprise in the mid-2000s, he ran into a roadblock.