brick🔊

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.

(slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.

(basketball, 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.

(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.

(computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

(UK, naval, slang) A projectile.

(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.

(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

The colour brick red.

(slang) A kilogram of cocaine.

(LGBTQ slang, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman who does not pass.

(colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New York, of weather) Extremely cold.

To build, line, or form with bricks.

To make into bricks.

(slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.

(computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.

(computing slang, of an electronic device) To become nonfunctional, especially in a way beyond repair.

(slang) To blunder; to screw up.