brick
Plural: bricks
Noun
- rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
- a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
- A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
- Something shaped like a brick.
- The colour brick red.
- A helpful and reliable person.
- 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.
- 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.
- An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
- A projectile.
- A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
- A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
- A kilogram of cocaine.
- A trans woman who does not pass.
Verb
Verb Forms: bricked, bricking, bricks
- To block or enclose a space with bricks.
- To build, line, or form with bricks.
- To make into bricks.
- To hit someone or something with a brick.
- To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
- Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
- To blunder; to screw up.
Adj
- Extremely cold.
Examples
- a plastic explosive brick
- He would brick up all the good scoring lanes with defensive plays.
- My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference.
- My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
- Thanks for helping me wash the car. You’re a brick.
- The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.
- This house is made of brick.
- This wall is made of bricks.
- to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)
- We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
Arctic, Baltic, algid, benumbed, bitter, bleak, bone-chilling, boreal, brass monkeys, brisk, brumal, chill, chilled, chilly, clay-cold, cold, cold as a mackerel, cold as a well-digger's arse, cold as a witch's kiss, cold as a witch's teat, cold as a witch's tit, cold as charity, cold as ice, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, cool, crisp, drafty, freezing, frigid, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, hiemal, icy, inclement, nesh, nippy, parky, polar, shivering, sleety, snowy, taters, wintry
Scrabble Score: 13
brick: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbrick: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
brick: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary