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Chock-a-bloc

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1840, OED Evaluation: N/A

transf. jammed or crammed close together; also of a place or person, crammed with, chock-full of.

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Yes. Well, if you, if you wanted to buy a house and like us, your first house, young family, living on a pretty ruddy tight budget, you, you had to. You couldn 't afford anything else. So again our street was choc-a-bloc full of young families, young children and um, actually that whole area was.
Squeezed together; jammed; filled