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English
Etymology
A loose usage of do with block (“(slang) head”).
Pronunciation
Verb
do one's block (third-person singular simple present does one's block, present participle doing one's block, simple past did one's block, past participle done one's block)
- (Australia, slang) To become enraged.
1993, Manning Clark, edited by Michael Cathcart, Manning Clark's History of Australia: Abridged, page 303:Dad was […] the man who slaved his guts out to win the status of a landowner, got dead drunk and was carried home from the local pub, and did his block, and shouted and raved, and sometimes bawled like a bull, but at other times was tender with man and beast.
2003, Dal Stivens, Jimmy Brockett: Portrait of a Notable Australian, page 283:He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky.
2007, Andrew Fraser, Court in the Middle, unnumbered page:I did my block and told him that he was there because I had consented to him being there, he wasn′t part of the interviewing team, and that if he was a smart-arse one more time, there would probably be a fight in the interview room.