goldbrick

Meanings

• a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
• an idle worthless person
• a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
• anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
• deprive of by deceit
• avoid (one's assigned duties)

Synonyms

bunco, con, defraud, diddle, fiddle, gip, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, ne'er-do-well, no-account, nobble, rook, scam, shirk, short-change, shrink from, swindle, victimize