Green’s Dictionary of Slang

block v.3

[abbr. put the blocks to under block n.1 ]

1. to have sexual intercourse (with); cite 1967 equally often has ‘Where did you knock ’er?’.

[UK]Sheaves from an Old Escritoire 86: Here’s a go [...] The toff’s lady is a treat [...] almost as tight as those two school misses we blocked last Monday!
Maudie (1985) 38: ‘All the maids block, y’know,’ he giggled fatuously. ‘Try little Jessie’.
[Ire]Joyce letter 3 Dec. to Nora Barnacle, in Ellman Sel. Letters (1975) 182: I know that I was the first man that blocked you but did any man ever frig you?
[UK]G.R. Bacchus Pleasure Bound ‘Ashore’ 10: He had blocked his captain’s wife, and then murdered the captain.
[Ire]Joyce Ulysses 711: And if I was married hed do it to me and I promised him yes faithfully Id let him block me.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 69: There was a young girl of Rangoon / Who was blocked by the Man in the Moon.
[UK]Partridge DSUE (1984) 96/1: since ca. 1890.
[Aus]Mess Songs & Rhymes R.A.A.F. in Horntip Coll. 65: In sweet embrace and tightly locked, we to and fro in passion rocked, / What silly girl would not be blocked by sliding, gliding Walter.
[UK]Rugby Songs 23: c*I went to the doctor,/ He said, ‘Where did you block ’er?’ / I said, ‘Down where the green grass grows’ [Simes:DLSS].
[US]Names 127: Few Americans would see why a British comedian was severely censored for saying on the air that he met Diana Dors on a narrow bridge and ‘didn’t know whether to toss himself off or block her passage’ [Simes:DLSS].

2. (N.Z.) to gang rape; also as n., a gang rape; thus put/go on the block, of a young woman, to be subjected/subject oneself to gang rape.

[NZ]Truth (Wellington) 4 Dec. 5: Home had told the girl: ‘You’ve got between now and the time I finish this cigarette until you go into the bedroom and go on the block.’ [DNZE].
[NZ]Press (Wellington) 23 Mar. 2: Mongrel Mob members accused of gang rape [...] He heard someone say, ‘We’ve got a honkey on the block’.
[NZ]L. Jones ‘Sour Grape at Ambury Farm Park’ in NZ Listener 117 23: She came around. She was shaking. I gave her a smoke. She looked like she had been blocked. There were 20 or 30 [Mongrel] Mobsters around the stage.
[NZ]B. Payne Staunch 109: When a sheila came she knew what was going to happen, she was going to be blocked, gang raped .
[NZ]McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 25: to put/go on the block [Ibid.] 25: block A pack rape, or a female subjected by a group of men to serial sexual activities [...] From 1970s.