Browsing page 1 of words meaning cold (12 words total)

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!

  • See more words with the same meaning: abbreviations (list of).
  • See more words with the same meaning: unintelligent person, idiot.

  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!

  • See more words with the same meaning: sports (related to).

  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.
  • 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 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.
  • See more words with the same meaning: telephone, phone.

  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.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to break, ruin, destroy.

  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.

  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
  • See more words with the same meaning: to break, ruin, destroy.

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

verb

• A term for expressing extreme cool or cold temperatures.

  Dude, it's freezin' balls in here!

  • See more words with the same meaning: cold.

  Last edited on Dec 21 2010. Submitted by Ty C. from Kokomo, IN, USA on Nov 05 1999.

adjective

• less common spelling of nipply.
  • See more words with the same meaning: cold.

  Last edited on Apr 12 2011. Submitted by Joseph A. on Dec 17 2004.

adjective

• of weather or an environment, cold enough to cause nipples to become erect.

  My goodness, it's nippley tonight!

  • See more words with the same meaning: cold.

  Last edited on Apr 12 2011. Submitted by Lena from Farmingdale, NY, USA on Oct 26 1998.