brick
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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weaponry
Etymology: From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm.
Inflected forms:
form: bricks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bricks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bricking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bricked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bricked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: This wall is made of bricks.
gloss: Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This house is made of brick.
They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass. Ave. wafting in from behind brick buildings and iron gates.
gloss: Something shaped like a brick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a plastic explosive brick
gloss: The colour brick red.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
He disentangled himself from the safe door and delved inside. He brought out a brick of banknotes.
A few times, when I got tired of my whisky highs and tobacco fumes, I turned to my new little helper, the tiny brick of cannabis resin I got from Don.
gloss: A helpful and reliable person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
examples: Thanks for helping me wash the car. You’re a brick.
“It's easy to see you're a brick!” replied Lady Augusta, and the laugh again became general.
Theobald's mind worked in this way: "Now, I know Ernest has told this boy what a disagreeable person I am, and I will just show him that I am not disagreeable at all, but a good old fellow, a jolly old boy, in fact a regular old brick, and that it is Ernest who is in fault all through."
‘Somebody had to stay with you,’ said Bobbie.
‘Tell you what, Bobbie,’ said Jim, ‘you’re a brick. Shake.’
“Well, I’ll do what I can for you,” said the seaman, …“If you were only shorter, I'd lend you some clothes.”
“You're a brick,” said the soldier gratefully.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: See also: put up a brick
We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
slang
uncountable
gloss: A projectile.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.
gloss: A card in a player's hand that is currently unplayable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A kilogram of cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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
gloss: A trans woman who does not pass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
offensive
uncountable
examples: Was she like you—a brick, never passed, never gonna?
In the world of drag, “brick” is a shady word, slang lobbed at queens whose makeup looks busted, whose wardrobes have seen better days, or who are just generally giving hot mess.
:( body positivity doesn't work on me :3 being a brick is awful smh
gloss: A reel or short video.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: I built up this feed brick by brick.
OK, you can have this brick back, I don't want it
gloss: Any of species Agrochola circellaris of moths of Europe and Asia Minor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A brick phone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To build, line, or form with bricks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)
If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected
The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids.
He came in and we went out to the back area I'd bricked amateurishly years ago.
gloss: To make into bricks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To hit someone or something with a brick.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
Just need to project against users from deleting NK.BIN and bricking the device.
installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.
Google owner Alphabet’s subsidiary Nest is closing a smart-home company it bought less than two years ago, leaving customers’ devices useless as of May. […] The company declined to share how many customers would be left with bricked devices as a result of the shutdown.
gloss: Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference.
gloss: To blunder; to screw up.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: Extremely cold.
pos: adj
tags: New-York
colloquial
not-comparable
examples: 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.
He was always hanging tight with me and since he had access to a ride . . . it made traveling easier. I mean it was no biggie brain buster to take the train, but when it's brick outside . . . fuck the A train.
Read on for tips so you don't freeze your ass off when it's brick outside.
"It's brick cold. Could you imagine stepping on this with your bare foot?" Taylor said.
Derived words: air brick
all-brick
alphabet brick
bang one's head against a brick wall
Bath brick
Besser brick
biobrick
brick-a-brack
brick and mortar
brick-and-mortar
brickbat
brick breaker
brick-buster
brick by brick
brick cheese
brick chicken
brickclay
brickdust
bricken
bricker
brickery
brickette
brickfield
brickfilm
brick hammer
brickhead
brick house
brickie
brick in one's hat
brickish
brick joke
brickkiln
bricklay
bricklayer
bricklaying
brickless
bricklike
brickmaker
brickmaking
brickman
brickmold
brickmould
brickor mortis
brickpack
brick pack
brick phone
brick red
brick-red
bricks and clicks
bricks and mortar
brickscape
brickshaped
brick-shaped
brick shithouse
brick slip
brick stamp
brickstamp
brick stitch
brick-tea
brick toast
Bricktop
Bricktown
brick veneer
brick venereal disease
brick wall
brick walled
brick-wall limiter
brickwise
brickwork
brickworks
bricky
brickyard
Bristol brick
built like a brick outhouse
built like a brick shipyard
built like a brick shithouse
chicken brick
chicken under a brick
debrick
dive brick
diving brick
drop a brick
drop like a hot brick
dumb as a brick
ecobrick
face brick
fire brick
firebrick
flying brick
frit brick
gold brick
gold-brick
goldbrick
have a brick in one's hat
hit a brick wall
hit the bricks
I could eat a brick
lath brick
like a cat on hot bricks
like a ton of bricks
like speaking to a brick wall
like talking to a brick wall
London to a brick
make bricks without straw
make bricks without straws
Millwall brick
mudbrick
nanobrick
oil of brick
one brick short of a full load
phytobrick
rebrick
red-brick
redbrick
red brick university
Roman brick
run into a brick wall
shit a brick
shit bricks
soap brick
take to the bricks
talk to a brick wall
thick as a brick
Turán's brick factory problem
Xbrick
yellow brick road
yellow-brick road
brick in
brick it
brick oneself
brick over
brick up
hard-brick
soft-brick
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tiilenpunainen
lang: French
word: rouge brique
lang: Hungarian
word: téglavörös
lang: Indonesian
word: merah bata
lang: Italian
word: mattone
lang: Ukrainian
word: цегля́стий
roman: cehljástyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: цегли́стий
roman: cehlýstyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: цегляни́й
roman: cehljanýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: цегло́ви́й
roman: cehlóvýj
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 使……變磚 /使……变砖
lang: French
word: briquer
lang: French
word: bricker
lang: German
word: bricken
lang: Italian
word: such as sfasciare
lang: Italian
word: scassare
lang: Italian
word: rompere
lang: Italian
word: sminchiare
lang: Italian
word: distruggere
lang: Italian
word: ...
lang: Japanese
word: 文鎮化する
roman: bunchinka suru
lang: Russian
word: окирпи́чить
roman: okirpíčitʹ