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blockbuster n. Pioneers are white families who move into black neighborhoods; “blockbusters” are black families who move into white neighborhoods. [English] [full cite] (Apr. 3, 2005)

blockbuster n. You can find one of the first new Greenstreets at 110th and Amsterdam in Morningside Heights. It occupies a long, wedge-shaped sidewalk extension along the southwest side of Amsterdam, widening from mid-block to occupy two traffic lanes at the intersection. This feature is called a “blockbuster,” and it prevents southbound traffic from driving the wrong way down Amsterdam, which runs one-way below 110th. [English Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Feb. 15, 2008)

Blockbuster edit n. Wal-Mart and Blockbuster, along with other of the nations largest retailers, won’t sell anything with an NC-17 (or anything that is unrated), and if they don’t stock your movie you may as well not bothered to have made it. Inevitably, the film gets cut to what the industry calls a “Blockbuster edit.” [English Movies Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 8, 2006)

blocktimer n. Most of these hard-hitting journalists—print or broadcast—are independent, free-lancers, or in our broadcast parlance, “blocktimers.” [English Philippines Media] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2004)

blocktimer n. Those independent producers who are now thriving are directly the same people who already had control of media outlets under the Marcos government, or are allied by kinship or partnership to network owners, advertising agencies, government agencies or powerful religious organizations. Even available airtime is controlled by a kind of “blocktimers mafia.” [English Philippines Media Television] [full cite] (Aug. 23, 2004)

blocktimer n. Abangan is a “blocktimer,” radio announcers who pay for their own time on the air and sell advertising time. [English Philippines Media Television] [full cite] (Aug. 23, 2004)

blocktimer n. Greg Sanchez pledged assistance to Cortes, even as he clarified the broadcaster is not a regular employe[e] of the station but a blocktimer, who buys airtime. [English Philippines Media Television] [full cite] (Aug. 23, 2004)

Bloggernacle n. Unlike the more mainstream Mormon blogs—known collectively as the Bloggernacle—that by and large promote the faith, this online diary focuses on the universal challenges of mothering young children and on frustration with the limited roles women have in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [English Media Religion Technology] [full cite] (Mar. 5, 2005)

blogject n. “Blogject” is a neologism that’s meant to focus attention on the participation of “objects” and “things” in the sphere of networked social discourse variously called the blogosphere, or social web. The Blogject is a kind of early ancestor to the Spime, Bruce Sterling’s resonant, single-syllable noun for things that are searchable, track their location, usage histories and discourse with the other things around them. [English Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Mar. 3, 2006)

blogola n. An emailer writes that there should be a spiffy little word for blogger payola, like “blogola.” Maybe we could also do with a word for blog product placement, like maybe “product blogment.” [English Money & Finance Technology] [full cite] (Jan. 17, 2005)

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