Words & TermsPlaces and regional language
blockies
Also: blockie, blockie route
Repeated social driving circuits around a town-centre route, especially at night.
In a sentence
They spent Friday night doing blockies around central Launceston.
Where it came from
Blockies names repeated laps of Launceston’s established town-centre driving circuit. Local accounts treat the route as part of the city’s twentieth-century social history.
- Initial era
- 1900–1999
- Where used
- Launceston, Tasmania