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 reality television series The Amazing Race, a Roadblock is a task in which one person of a team is required to perform.
Roadblock is also the name of a character in the G.I. Joe comic books and cartoons.
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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