brick
Meanings
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
- 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, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
- Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair.
- To blunder; to screw up.
Adj
- Extremely cold.
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
algid, Arctic, Baltic, 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
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