What it means
Means absolutely full, packed out, rammed with no space left. If a pub, train, car park or fridge is chockers, it's basically bursting at the seams. In Aussie and Kiwi English it also works for being very full after eating, that proper can't-fit-another-bite kind of full.
Usage examples
"We rocked up to the pub for happy hour and it was chockers, so we grabbed a takeaway and headed to the beach instead."
"The last train home was chockers, I spent the whole ride wedged against a stranger's rucksack."
"The freezer is chockers again, we could survive a siege on the stuff in there."
"Nah, don't bother driving in, mate, the car park's chockers already."
"I was absolutely chockers after Nana kept piling more roast potatoes on my plate."
Where it comes from
Chockers comes from chock-a-block, an older English phrase for something completely full or blocked up. In everyday speech it got clipped down to chocka and chockers. That shorter form really took root in Australia and New Zealand, where it became a dead normal slang way to say packed solid.
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