block party
Noun
Meaning
A festive event held in the street of a city block.
Synonym: (UK) street party
(basketball, slang) A game during which a single player blocks the shots of many other players.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Examples
According to CMPD, a third victim in the north Charlotte block party shooting case has been pronounced dead.
As an owner of the Wildrose on Capitol Hill, she had started planning the lesbian bar’s annual Pride Month block party in January.
Bates wrote that Dyke's attempt to suppress the annual Mifflin Street block party "would take three days, require hundreds of officers on overtime pay, and engulf the student community from the nearby Southeast Dorms to Langdon Street's fraternity row.
Even before the reunification of Germany united on a joint congress in Hanover, West German FDP with the parties to the BFD and the former block party NDPD to the first all-German party.
Minter’s original intent was to close off Cove Street, where Indigo Arts Alliance is located, for a block party of live readings, performances and arts and crafts to celebrate the roots, identity and resilience of Black people.
That survival stems in large part from support of the community and funds from its annual, three-day Pride Month block party.