breeze block

American  

noun

British.

1. a cinder block.

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breeze block British  

noun

1. Usual US names: cinder block.   clinker block.  a light building brick made from the ashes of coal, coke, etc, bonded together by cement and used esp for walls that bear relatively small loads

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Etymology

Origin of breeze block

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Home for Javier is a bare breeze block house, with no glass in some of the windows, and the sound of children's laughter coming from inside.

From BBC

The building might well collapse but it doesn't deter them - they collect old breeze blocks and brush thick dust off an old red sofa.

From BBC

We pass rotting beams propped up precariously by stacked breeze blocks.

From BBC

With many homes built of mud bricks and timber or cement and breeze blocks, structures crumbled easily.

From Reuters

The gravity-fed water tower was built with a steel structure, filled out with concrete breeze blocks made by his workforce in Thorpeness.

From BBC