brick

Meaning

1. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
2. Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
3. Something shaped like a brick.
4. (slang) A helpful and reliable person.
5. (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.
6. (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. (slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
8. (slang) A projectile.
9. A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
10. (slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
11. The colour brick red.
12. (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.

block

brick-shaped

mud brick

lay bricks

toff

paving material

brick factory

brick moth

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹɪk/

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.