cinder block

noun

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

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Gomez gestured across the street toward 100 Centre Street—the criminal courthouse, a cheerless Art Deco building the color of cinder blocks. Sarah Lustbader, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 Before being shuttered in 2021, CoreCivic’s Leavenworth facility served as a maximum-security federal prison, housing violent offenders on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service in 192,000 square feet of stark white cinder blocks, drywall and closed-circuit television cameras. Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2025 One way to make your cinder block structures stand out is to paint them with outdoor paint. Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Mar. 2025 The materials seen in the video appeared to include cement, sheet rock, cinder blocks, plastic bags and large black storage containers. Greg Wehner, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cinder block

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

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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 13 Apr. 2025.

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cinder block

noun
: a building block made of cement and coal cinders
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