Roadblock

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A roadblock is a temporary installation set up to control or block traffic along a road. In peaceful circumstances, they are usually instantiated by the police, or road transport authorities; they are also commonly employed during wars and are usually staffed by heavily armed soldiers in that case.

Other uses of the term Roadblock may include the following:

  • The word roadblock is commonly used to refer to any similar obstruction to progress in an activity or task. "Stumbling block" is another similar term for the same thing.
  • On the CBS reailty television series The Amazing Race, a Roadblock is a task in which one person of a team is required to perform.
  • Roadblock, a 1951 crime thriller film.

Roadblock may also be a word used as a rude word to call an obese person.

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