chock-full
full to the limit; crammed.
Origin of chock-full
1- Also chock-ful, chuck-full, choke-full.
Words Nearby chock-full
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How to use chock-full in a sentence
After a decade of managing the Borden home, Wilber is chock-full of stories of hauntings and paranormal sightings.
Would You Stay in Lizzie Borden’s Ax-Murder House? | Nina Strochlic | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe audience was chock-full of the influential and influencers.
Gay Activist David Mixner: I Mercy Killed 8 People | Tim Teeman | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThus, the SHU was chock full of contraband, because all the x-ray machines were used by the clinics and not the guards.
His mantel is chock full of Oscars and Grammys (three of each).
Giorgio Moroder, Dance Music Legend, on Remixing Coldplay’s ‘Midnight’ and ‘Crazy’ Lana Del Rey | Douglas Wolk | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAccording to the channel, the new, Western-friendly government in Kiev is chock full of fascists and neo-Nazis.
Watch RT, Putin's TV Network, Call the Cops on Me | James Kirchick | March 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
It seems to me that when a fellow is chock-full of anything he oughtn't to feel much hunger.
Two Boys in Wyoming | Edward S. EllisMe and your mother wuz both young, both very much in love, both chock full o' hope and hard day's work.
Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) | John McElroyThe harbour was chock-full of forlorn-looking craft, which had evidently lain idle for a long while.
Eastern Nights - and Flights | Alan BottHe is chock full of tact, the smoothest old boy I ever fell up against.
The Pillar of Light | Louis TracyThe newspapers got along at last, chock full of war, and the patriotic fever fairly bust out in Baldinsville.
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward | Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)
British Dictionary definitions for chock-full
(postpositive) completely full
Origin of chock-full
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