Chimbridge Singlish Dictionary

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noun

1. an unoccupied common area found at the ground floor of almost every HDB block, sometimes used for social functions, gatherings, and events including weddings or funerals, and often containing e.g. seating areas, community facilities, bicycle parking, and sometimes even small sundry shops known as mama shops.

In contrast to the safe and regulated space of the flat, the void deck is seen as a permissive and carnivalesque space, where the margins and interstices of dominant state discourses ... come to the fore.

— 2005, Robbie B. H. Goh. Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN: 9789622097315. p.106

Since their neighbour Madam Halimah Yacob became President last week, residents at a Yishun Avenue 4 public housing block have noticed more policemen on patrol, including at the void deck and lift lobby on the floor where Mdm Halimah stays.

— 2017 September 19, Louisa Tang. Today, "A President next door, but neighbours say it’s no fuss at all". p.7