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gold⋅brick

  [gohld-brik for 1, 2; gohld-brik for 3–5]
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–noun
1. Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
2. Informal. anything supposed to be valuable but which turns out to be worthless.
3. Also, goldbricker. Slang. a person, esp. a soldier, who shirks responsibility or performs duties without proper effort or care.
–verb (used without object) Slang.
4. to shirk responsibility or perform halfheartedly; loaf.
–verb (used with object)
5. to swindle; cheat.
Origin:
1850–55, Americanism; gold + brick
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gold·brick   (gōld'brĭk')   
n.  A person, especially a soldier, who avoids assigned duties or work; a shirker.
v.   gold·bricked, gold·brick·ing, gold·bricks

v.   intr.
To shirk one's assigned duties or responsibilities.
v.   tr.
To cheat; swindle.
gold'brick'er n.
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
goldbrick

  1. n.
    a lazy person. : Pete is just a lazy goldbrick.
  2. in.
    to be lazy; to shirk one's duty. : Whoever is goldbricking when I come back gets a real talking to.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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