"block" ~= street, and the OED?

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> go "across the block" (i.e., straight across the street)

The same act also known as "crossing [the street] in the middle of the
block," wherein _middle_ is essentially any location not at an
intersection and not necessarily in the literal "middle" of the block.

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