| brick | |
| 1. n. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. | |
| This wall is made of bricks. | |
| 2. n. Considered collectively, as a building material. | |
| This house is made of brick. | |
| 3. n. Something shaped like a brick. | |
| a plastic explosive brick | |
| 4. n. (slang) A helpful and reliable person. | |
| Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick. | |
| 5. n. (basketball, 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. | |
| 6. n. (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug. | |
| 7. n. (technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete. | |
| 8. n. (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick. | |
| 9. n. (poker 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 | |
| 10. n. The colour brick red. | |
| All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney. | |
| 11. adj. (colloquial, AAVE, New England, of weather) Extremely cold. | |
| 12. v. To build with bricks. | |
| 13. v. To make into bricks. | |
| 14. v. (slang) To hit someone or something with a brick. | |
| 15. v. (computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick. | |
| My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm. | |
