brick
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪk/
The English word “brick” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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 card in a player's hand that is currently unplayable.
- A kilogram of cocaine.
- A trans woman who does not pass.
- A reel or short video.
- Any member of the species Agrochola circellaris of moths of Europe and Asia Minor.
- A brick phone.
verb
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. The social media slang sense derives from…
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