--- title: "How to pronounce \"blockbust\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"blockbust\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/OK-MLy1mh4A/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/blockbust" --- # How to pronounce "blockbust" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ˈblɑkbʌst/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **bloc·kbust** - **Stress**: **BLOC** — say this syllable louder and longer - **Native Audio**: [Listen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blockbust.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blockbust.wav.mp3) ## Meaning & Usage ### VERB - Of a film or book, to succeed wildly and become popular. ### Example Sentences - "Blockbuster should have pivoted." - "Blockbuster actually had a couple of stores in Alaska still open that nobody knew about that just closed." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "blockbust" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "So we're in the chemicals business. Blockbuster should have pivoted." - **Watch at 28:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK-MLy1mh4A&t=1691s) ### Example 2 > "Blockbuster actually had a couple of stores in Alaska still open that nobody knew about that just closed." - **Watch at 0:29**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVwgpS9oos&t=29s) ### Example 3 > "--Blockbuster down to basically-- finally, near done." - **Watch at 30:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVwgpS9oos&t=1843s) ### Example 4 > "blockbuster uh stuff you should know is one of the most popular podcasts ever and has grown beyond the podcast to" - **Watch at 0:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jUQHA-ji6k&t=39s) ### Example 5 > "blockbuster flops in the theaters." - **Watch at 37:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynfCTdJGiQg&t=2239s) ### Example 6 > "{blockbuster.} But there isn't." - **Watch at 34:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWJdwDJLwXs&t=2096s) ### Example 7 > "Disney It's Time Warner who's the beneficiary of some of these trade policies so when you look at the big blockbusters stories that could be told in really engaging ways I've learned that the people who run the media know that wow I'm not worried about this story because it won't get ratings I'm worried about this story because perhaps" - **Watch at 43:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS38iBLrK0M&t=2604s) ### Example 8 > "And Blockbuster could have its stores but he thought the stores would be in decline as, in fact, happened. Blockbuster in retrospect stupidly declined to invest in Netflix. And within a couple of years Netflix had basically helped destroy Blockbuster." - **Watch at 0:51**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsSsMHV0Kt8&t=51s) ### Example 9 > "And within a couple of years Netflix had basically helped destroy Blockbuster. Blockbuster was an old technology. You went to a video store to rent a video." - **Watch at 1:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsSsMHV0Kt8&t=65s) ### Example 10 > "So the analogy is apt and I think he was smart about that. Blockbuster had the resources and had it been smart enough to go online, invest some of those resources to go online, they would have disseminated Netflix. Blockbuster was, you know, its ownership didn't want to spend the money." - **Watch at 2:32**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsSsMHV0Kt8&t=152s) ## How to Pronounce "blockbust" - **Syllables**: bloc · kbust - **Stress**: BLOC — say this syllable louder and longer - **IPA**: `/ˈblɑkbʌst/` - **Listen for**: the stressed /BLOC/ in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [blockbusts](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/blockbusts), [blockbusted](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/blockbusted), [blockbusting](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/blockbusting), [blockbuster](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/blockbuster) ## Related Pronunciations [blackbutt](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/blackbutt) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “blockbust”? “blockbust” is pronounced /ˈblɑkbʌst/ (bloc · kbust). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “blockbust”? “blockbust” has 2 syllables: bloc · kbust. ### Where is the stress in “blockbust”? The primary stress in “blockbust” is on “BLOC”. Listen for that stressed syllable in the clips above. ### What does “blockbust” mean? Of a film or book, to succeed wildly and become popular. ### How can I hear “blockbust” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “blockbust” with synchronized subtitles. 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