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blocker (iou) and Khartoum (sh)


blocker (iou)



blocker noun. ME.
[from BLOCK noun or verb + -ER1.]
A person who uses a block (in various trades). ME.
A person who or thing which blocks or obstructs; spec. (a) Cricket a habitually defensive batsman; (b) Amer. Football a player whose task is to block opponents; (c) a substance which prevents or inhibits a given physiological function. M19.
beta blocker: see BETA 2a(e).
A person who occupies or farms a block of land. Chiefly in backblocker s.v. BACK-. L19.
A bowler hat. slang. M20.

Khartoum (sh)




City (pop., 1993: 924,505), capital of The Sudan.

Located just south of the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers, it was originally an Egyptian army camp (1821). The Mahdists besieged and destroyed the town in 1885, killing Charles George Gordon, the British governor-General. Reoccupied by the British in 1898, it served as the seat of the Anglo-Egyptian government until 1956, when it became the capital of the independent republic of The Sudan. A major trade and Communications centre, it is the seat of several universities.