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brick

  [brik]
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–noun
1. a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2 1/4 × 3 3/4 × 8 in. (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
2. such blocks collectively.
3. the material of which such blocks are made.
4. any block or bar having a similar size and shape: a gold brick; an ice-cream brick.
5. the length of a brick as a measure of thickness, as of a wall: one and a half bricks thick.
6. Informal. an admirably good or generous person.
–verb (used with object)
7. to pave, line, wall, fill, or build with brick.
–adjective
8. made of, constructed with, or resembling bricks.
—Idioms
9. drop a brick, to make a social gaffe or blunder, esp. an indiscreet remark.
10. hit the bricks,
a. to walk the streets, esp. as an unemployed or homeless person.
b. to go on strike: With contract talks stalled, workers are threatening to hit the bricks.
Also, take to the bricks.
11. make bricks without straw,
a. to plan or act on a false premise or unrealistic basis.
b. to create something that will not last: To form governments without the consent of the people is to make bricks without straw.
c. to perform a task despite the lack of necessary materials.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME brike < MD bricke; akin to break

Related forms:
bricklike, brickish, adjective
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brick   (brĭk)   
n.  

  1. pl. bricks or brick A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material.

  2. An object shaped like such a block: a brick of cheese.

  3. Informal A helpful, reliable person.

tr.v.   bricked, brick·ing, bricks

  1. To construct, line, or pave with bricks.

  2. To close or wall with brick: bricked up the windows of the old house.


[Middle English brike, from Middle Dutch bricke.]
brick'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
brick

  1. n.
    a failed shot (in basketball) that bounces off the rim or backboard. : Chalk up another brick for Michael.
  2. n.
    any failure. : This whole thing is a mess. Whose brick is this anyway?
  3. in.
    to fail. (From sense 1.) : The whole project bricked because we sat on the contract too long.
  4. tv.
    to strike or punch someone. (Streets.) : That dude just bricked a cop!
  5. n.
    a block of marijuana; a kilo of cocaine. (Drugs.) : Man, I can't afford a brick! Gimme a bag. , The police said he was carrying a “brick” of cannabis when arrested.
  6. n.
    a large, brick-shaped, handheld mobile telephone that is a precursor to the modern cellphone. : I still have my old “brick,” but I'd be embarrassed to use it, even if it did still work.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

brick 
1416, from O.Fr. briche, probably from a Gmc. source akin to M.Du. bricke "a tile," lit. "a broken piece," from the verbal root of break. Meaning "a good fellow" is from 1840. Brickbat "piece or fragment of a brick" is from 1563; brick wall in the fig. sense of "impenetrable barrier" is from 1886.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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