Block
Block verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.
Cook
Cook verb - To change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Then on the day they're about to cook, Tom comes in with a knife block and declares the chefs will be cooking each other's dishes instead of their own.
Source: Series / Top Chef -
Roxie is packed off to the women's block in Cook County Jail, inhabited by Velma and other murderesses ("Cell Block Tango") ...not that they would admit it.
Source: Implausible Deniability - Susan. Mostly because she took 15 episodes to properly cook lamb and was several times put on the chopping block for being extremely overshadowed in both skill and growth.
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