Sekirov Dictionary

brick

/ˈbɹɪk/

noun 17
verb 6
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 13

noun17

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a hard block of earth made firm by heat or sun, one of many put together to build walls
- This wall is made of bricks.
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Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
- This house is made of brick.
Something shaped like a brick.
A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
A brick phone.
(informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male plug and an attached cord terminating in another plug.
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(slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
- I can sell bricks, I don't need to rap / Buj so peng it makes the fiends collapse / Cook that coca into crack / I was selling Zs while you was in your bed — 2013
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(slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
- We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
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The colour brick red.
- The handyman considered the question and I knew she had a brick of ground beans in her bag but was considering whether the beds and a hot drink was worth a brick of coffee. — 2011
(slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
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(slang, old-fashioned) A helpful and reliable person.
- Thanks for helping me wash the car. You’re a brick.
A card in a player's hand that is currently unplayable.
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(slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
- The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.
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(slang) A reel or short video.
- I built up this feed brick by brick.
- OK, you can have this brick back, I don't want it
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(UK, slang) A projectile.
- I was on deck watching the firing, and looking at the direction in which our guns were pointing, it was obvious that it was not going to be Centurion who was going to receive our bricks. — 2019
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(offensive) A trans woman who does not pass.
- Was she like you—a brick, never passed, never gonna? — 2022
Any member of the species Agrochola circellaris of moths of Europe and Asia Minor.

verb6

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To build, line, or form with bricks.
- to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)
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(slang) To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
- My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
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(slang) Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
- My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference.
(slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
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To make into bricks.
- The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter. — 1904
(slang) To blunder; to screw up.

adjective1

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(informal) Extremely cold.
- And while the tropics are definitely the place to be when it's brick outside, rocking a snorkel on the beach only works when you're snorkeling. — 2005

forms

bricked · bricking · bricks

Phrases with brick

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