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Definition of brick

brick

adjective

  • very cold. Usually only used to describe the temperature of a place, e.g. the weather or indoors in a particular location.
    It's brick outside today.
    • See more words with the same meaning: cold.

    Last edited on Mar 23 1999. Submitted by Meeka B. from Harlem, NY, USA on Mar 23 1999.

noun

  • an unintelligent person. Derived from "dumb as a brick."
    That kid is such a brick!

    Last edited on May 15 2002. Submitted by tim g. from Duluth, MN, USA on May 15 2002.

  • a basketball shot in which the ball bounces off the backboard and/or hits the rim, but does not go though the net.
    He keeps on hitting bricks.
    Brick!

    Last edited on Jan 27 2003. Submitted by Fox from Queens, NY, USA on Jan 27 2003.

  • a large quantity of drugs packaged in a brick shape, especially cocaine.
    I'm gonna buy some bricks tonight.
    • See more words with the same meaning: cocaine.
    • See more words with the same meaning: drugs.

    Last edited on Aug 04 2013. Submitted by Terry S. from Long Island City, NY, USA on Mar 08 2003.

  • an external power transformer that provides power from a wall socket to a laptop, wireless router, projector, etc.

    Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

  • a piece of electronic equipment that has been rendered inoperable. This usually happens when trying to update the firmware or BIOS of the device, when "jail-breaking", installing new cell-phone ROMs, etc.
    I tried to run some program I got off the web to turn my phone into a wireless hotspot. Now it's a brick.
    • See more words with the same meaning: broken.
    • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

    Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

  • a large cellphone.

    Last edited on Sep 21 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.

  • a reliable person. British slang.
    You can always rely on Joe - he's such a brick.

    Last edited on Aug 04 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 04 2013.

  • one hundred thousand U.S. Dollars in cash.
    It is going to cost me over a brick to afford this Lamborghini.

    Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 25 2017.

  • Someone mentally ill
    The patient was described as a brick.

    Last edited on Mar 09 2021. Submitted by Anonymous on Mar 09 2021.

noun - uncountable

  • a long period of time
    It's been a brick since I've been to a zoo.

    Last edited on Nov 21 2019. Submitted by Anonymous on Nov 21 2019.

verb - ambitransitive

  • to bail, ditch, let down, not show up, or do something as promised/agreed to.
    Yeah, Annie planned the whole thing, but now she's bricking.
    Yo, looks like he's gonna brick on the party, but the rest of us are coming.
    Yeah, she planned the whole thing, but then she just bricked.

    Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 23 2012.

verb - transitive

  • to hit with bricks.
    James's car got bricked last night.

    Last edited on Aug 04 2013. Submitted by Key on Mar 21 2006.

  • to render a (usually portable) electronic device unusable - i.e. as useful as a brick.
    I bricked my iPhone trying to jailbreak it.

    Last edited on Aug 04 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 03 2009.

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Definitions include: to cook something in the microwave.
Definitions include: to have, to take.
Definitions include: "credibility".
Definitions include: shortened form of "documentary".
Definitions include: a qualifying examination.
Definitions include: "take a loss", i.e. to suffer a loss in a competition.
Definitions include: admission paid to get into a bar, dance club, etc.
Definitions include: Short and sassy for "whatever."
Definitions include: said upon fooling someone.
Definitions include: "apartment."

Other terms relating to 'broken':

Definitions include: out of place, crooked.
Definitions include: out of sorts, broken, or functioning poorly or improperly; "messed up".
Definitions include: to break, to fail.
Definitions include: under the influence of drugs.
Definitions include: to pester or annoy.
Definitions include: To reject or refuse, often in an abrupt or forceful manner.
Definitions include: messed up, weird.
Definitions include: under the influence of Ecstasy (MDMA).
Definitions include: a bug that makes hardware or software unusable.
Definitions include: to be under the influence of methamphetamine.
Definitions include: great.
Definitions include: very inappropriate.
Definitions include: broken or ruined.
Definitions include: to overwhelm a web site with massive amounts of traffic due to Slashdot linking to it.
Definitions include: under the influence of drugs, often LSD ("acid").

Other terms relating to 'cocaine':

Definitions include: cocaine.
Definitions include: an ounce of marijuana.
Definitions include: cocaine.
Definitions include: Cocaine, "also yeo, yo-head etc."
Definitions include: a strain of marijuana
Definitions include: cocaine.
Definitions include: cocaine.
Definitions include: kill, murder etc.
Definitions include: cocaine.
Definitions include: an exclamation of happiness.
Definitions include: cocaine.
Definitions include: cocaine.
Definitions include: cocaine.
Definitions include: an eighth of an ounce of cocaine.
Definitions include: cocaine.

Other terms relating to 'cold':

Definitions include: abbreviated form of bitterly cold.
Definitions include: cold.
Definitions include: fast.
Definitions include: less common spelling of nipply.
Definitions include: extremely cold.
Definitions include: A term for expressing extreme cool or cold temperatures.
Definitions include: "dumb brick", i.e. very cold.
Definitions include: of weather, cold, causing nipples to harden.
Definitions include: of weather or an environment, cold enough to cause nipples to become erect.
Definitions include: extremely cold.
Definitions include: cold.

Other terms relating to 'computer slang':

Definitions include: to advertise using spam and "spammy" techniques.
Definitions include: to contact a person via an Internet-based "Instant Messaging" service, such as MSN Instant Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger.
Definitions include: acronym for "great".
Definitions include: acronym for "for what it's worth".
Definitions include: the condition where more and more features get added to a system that it becomes difficult to use, requires more computer resources, etc.
Definitions include: idiot.
Definitions include: acronym for "in my opinion".
Definitions include: a computer that malfunctions frequently.
Definitions include: acronym for shout-out.
Definitions include: to kick someone off of a network connection.
Definitions include: the real world, as opposed to the "virtual" world of computers, also known as cyberspace.
Definitions include: a comment that usually serves no other purpose above telling listeners (or more often: readers) that the speaker (writer) is in the technological "in group".
Definitions include: "babygirl", i.e. girlfriend.
Definitions include: "elite."
Definitions include: acronym for "read the manual".

Other terms relating to 'drugs':

Definitions include: a marijuana cigarette; "joint".
Definitions include: marijuana ("bud") from British Columbia, Canada.
Definitions include: a marijuana cigarette; "joint".
Definitions include: a cup of Joe, i.e. coffee.
Definitions include: cocaine.
Definitions include: low-quality marijuana.
Definitions include: the psychedelic drug LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide).
Definitions include: marijuana.
Definitions include: marijuana.
Definitions include: a police officer.
Definitions include: good Marijuana
Definitions include: marijuana.
Definitions include: marijuana.
Definitions include: to have sexual intercourse.
Definitions include: melted methamphetamine.

Other terms relating to 'sports (related to)':

Definitions include: steroids.
Definitions include: a very attractive person; "a perfect ten".
Definitions include: a person who balls.
Definitions include: high, under the influence of marijuana.
Definitions include: good; excellent; "cool".
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Definitions include: to hit.
Definitions include: excited.
Definitions include: in anything, a second chance; "do over".
Definitions include: golf.
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Definitions include: to be successful.
Definitions include: a decision that will be made close to the time of acting upon that decision.
Definitions include: to vomit.
Definitions include: an inexperienced surfer, regardless of age.

Other terms relating to 'telephone, phone':

Definitions include: cell phone.
Definitions include: a person or object that erred.
Definitions include: phone.
Definitions include: a friend.
Definitions include: phone number or digits.
Definitions include: to call on a telephone.
Definitions include: a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex (i.e. getting booty.)
Definitions include: phone number.
Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)
Definitions include: a handgun.
Definitions include: cell phone.
Definitions include: abbreviated form of "conference call".
Definitions include: to urinate.
Definitions include: a song.
Definitions include: a five pound note.

Other terms relating to 'to break, ruin, destroy':

Definitions include: high-grade marijuana.
Definitions include: stiff, sore.
Definitions include: to destroy.
Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)
Definitions include: to kill or destroy.
Definitions include: great.
Definitions include: to vomit.
Definitions include: to be under the influence of drugs.
Definitions include: to steal.
Definitions include: to break, to fail.
Definitions include: to destroy.
Definitions include: to break or ruin.
Definitions include: ruined.
Definitions include: to wreck a vehicle such that repairs would cost more than the value of the (unwrecked) vehicle.
Definitions include: to have sex.

Other terms relating to 'unintelligent person, idiot':

Definitions include: "idiot".
Definitions include: a goofy, silly, or slightly strange person.
Definitions include: a stupid person.
Definitions include: a stupid person.
Definitions include: implies someone who is (sometimes) not too bright, unkempt, nerdy.
Definitions include: a dumb, stupid, lame, or slow person.
Definitions include: a stupid person.
Definitions include: "moron".
Definitions include: an unintelligent person.
Definitions include: a very unintelligent person; "moron"; "imbecile".
Definitions include: styling.
Definitions include: someone who is stupid.
Definitions include: stupid or dumb.
Definitions include: an unintelligent person.
Definitions include: making fun of someone that did something stupid.

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Other terms relating to 'brick':

Definitions include: acronym for "brick-and-mortar".
Definitions include: a "traditional" business with a physical presence.
Definitions include: nice rack
Definitions include: a large muscular person.
Definitions include: anything solid, sturdy, well-built.
Definitions include: of a woman, to be well-endowed.
Definitions include: large, muscular, and strongly built.
Definitions include: very unintelligent.
Definitions include: "dumb brick", i.e. very cold.
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: Couldn't believe it, or make a big deal.
Definitions include: to react with extreme emotion; "freak out".
Definitions include: cold.

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