roadblock
nounEtymology
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Something that blocks or obstructs a road.
An obstacle or impediment.
- to hit roadblocks
- […] let’s get back to Earl, who had run into a roadblock in his desire to administer wedgies. As it turns out, underpants didn’t exist in the 18th century and without underpants, the whole wedgie business becomes a problem.
- Transgender people face roadblocks in accessing healthcare, and it’s not going away even after archaic rules denying healthcare access to transgender people are lifted and more of us become insured.
To prevent, to hinder.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for roadblock. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA