1. A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material.
2. an object shaped like such a block: a brick of cheese.
3. informal A helpful, reliable person.
4. to construct, line, or pave with bricks.
5. to close or wall with brick: bricked up the windows of the old house.
6. drop a brick informal to make a clumsy social error.

1. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
2. considered collectively, as a building material.
3. something shaped like a brick.
4. A helpful and reliable person.
5. 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. 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. an electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
8. a carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
9. A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
10. made of brick(s).
11. to build with bricks.
12. to make into bricks.
13. to hit someone using a brick.
14. to make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
15. to be in a high state of anxiety or fright: "bricking it"(can we verify(+) this sense?)

1. A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
2. bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material.
3. any oblong rectangular mass.
4. A good fellow; a merry person.
5. to lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
6. to imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.

1. to break by pulling back.
2. A kind of artificial stone made (usually) of moistened and finely kneaded clay molded into rectangular blocks (the length of which is commonly twice the breadth), and hardened by being burned in a kiln, or sometimes, especially in warm countries, by being dried in the sun. sun-dried bricks are usually now, as in remote antiquity, mixed with chopped straw to give them greater tenacity. (see adobe.) bricks in the united states and europe are generally red (see brick-clay), but some clays produce yellowish bricks, as for example the Milwaukee brick much used as an ornamental building material in the united states. the bricks made in china and japan are invariably of a slaty-blue color.
3. A mass or object resembling a brick: as, a brick of tea; a silver brick. specifically
4. A loaf of bread.
5. in heraldry, a charge similar to a billet, but depicted so as to show the thickness, that is, in perspective.
6. made of brick; resembling brick; as, a brick wall; a brick-red color.
7. to lay or pave with bricks, or to surround, close, or wall in with bricks.
8. to build in with bricks; place in brickwork.
9. to give the appearance of brick to: said of a plastered wall when it is smeared with red ocher and joints are made in it with an edgetool, and then filled with fine plaster to resemble brickwork.
10. A breach.
11. A rent or flaw.
12. A portion of land (apparently the same as breck, 4).
13. A good fellow, in an emphatic sense: a term of admiration bestowed on one who on occasion or habitually shows in a modest way great or unexpected courage, kindness, or thoughtfulness, or other admirable qualities.
14. “in brief I don't stick to declare father dick, so they called him for short, was a regular brick; A metaphor taken, I have not the page aright, out of an ethical work by the Stagyrite.”
15. barham, Ingoldsby legends, brothers of Birchington.
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1. rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
2. a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy