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 • Feb. 3, 2026

The two-storey house sits behind a breeze block wall down a rough side road.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2021

It is set back along a series of winding, loose rock roads, in a gritty neighborhood of one story, breeze block buildings.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2019

Nearly 70 years on, some of those refugees and many of their descendants continue to live in camps, which are now chronically overcrowded breeze block neighbourhoods.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2018

But I watched the Wall's progress from barbed wire to breeze block; I watched the ramparts of the cold war going up on the still-warm ashes of the hot one.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2013