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noun
- A hardened block of mud, clay, etc, used for building.
- This house is made of bricks.
- (uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
- This house is made of .
- (basketball) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket.
- We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
- Term of endearment, especially towards a subject who has performed a favour of an act of kindness without expectation of reciprocity.
- Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a .
- (slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has been rendered non-functional and, usually, non-repairable.
- (colloquial) a mobile phone, especially one that is large and/or heavy relative to current models
- (colloquial) An external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in a power plug. A power brick.
Translations: - Dutch: baksteen
- French: brique
- German: Backstein, Ziegel
- Italian: mattone
(trans-mid)
- Spanish: ladrillo
verb
- (slang) To hit someone using a brick.
- (rfv-sense) (slang) To be a high state of anxiety: "Bricking it"
- (rfv-sense) (slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually unrepareable, resulting in a device with a utility on par with a masonry brick.
- My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
Translations: adjective
- Made of brick.
- All that was left after the fire was the chimney.
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