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"etymology_text": "A loose usage of do with block (“(slang) head”).",
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"ref": "1993, Manning Clark, edited by Michael Cathcart, Manning Clark's History of Australia: Abridged, page 303:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2003, Dal Stivens, Jimmy Brockett: Portrait of a Notable Australian, page 283:",
"text": "He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky.",
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},
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"ref": "2007, Andrew Fraser, Court in the Middle, unnumbered page:",
"text": "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.",
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"(Australia, slang) To become enraged."
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