cinder block

noun

: a hollow rectangular building block made of cement and coal cinders

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Bits of cinder block embedded in the back of his head. Jenni Carlson, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025 But David doesn’t ask his audience to tread water while holding a cinder block. Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025 The horse came by the garden and clocked me with his big orange eyeball, dragging the cinder block, cropping grass around my father’s outdoor grill. Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024 Selling a Dream Recruiters fan out across East Africa, from impoverished hilltop villages to the cinder block neighborhoods of Nairobi and Kampala, the Ugandan capital. Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cinder block

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cinder block was in 1922

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“Cinder block.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cinder%20block. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.

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cinder block

noun
: a building block made of cement and coal cinders
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