goldbrick noun 3verb 2forms 3 noun3 •Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale. — 1920 •(slang, old-fashioned) A shirker or malingerer.Tell me that I’ve been a louse and loafer You won’t get a fight here, no ma’am Say I’m a goldbrick, a goof-off, no good But that couldn’t be all that I am — 2004 •(slang, old-fashioned) A swindler. verb2 •(slang, old-fashioned) To shirk or malinger.I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else. — 1961 •(slang, old-fashioned) To swindle. formsgoldbricked · goldbricking · goldbricks
