What it means
Means totally full, packed out, rammed to the eyeballs. If a train, pub, car park, freezer, whatever is chockers, there's basically no room left to squeeze a shoelace in. It's casual, everyday slang, especially in Aussie and Kiwi English, and it can also mean you've had loads of something, like being chockers after a massive feed.
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 meaning completely full or blocked up. That got shortened in everyday speech to chocka and chockers, especially in Australia and New Zealand, where it settled into a very normal slangy way to say something's packed with no space left.
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