adjective

• cold.

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001.

• a large cellphone.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 21 2009.

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.

  by Meeka B., Harlem, NY, USA, Mar 23 1999.

noun

• an unintelligent person. Derived from "dumb as a brick."

  That kid is such a brick!

  by tim g., Duluth, MN, USA, 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!

  by Fox, Queens, NY, USA, Jan 27 2003.

• a large quantity of drugs packaged in a brick shape, especially cocaine.

  I'm gonna buy some bricks tonight.

  by Terry S., Long Island City, NY, USA, Mar 08 2003.

• an external power transformer of the kind associated with laptops, modems, routers and other small computing appliances, especially one of the modern type with cords on both ends, as opposed to the type that plug directly into an outlet.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009.

• a piece of electronic or computer equipment that has been rendered unusable. Especially used to describe what happens to devices like routers or PDAs during a firmware update when the firmware image is damaged or power is lost. This term usually implies irreversibility, but equipment can sometimes be "unbricked."

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009.

transitive verb

• to hit with bricks.

  James's car got bricked last night.

  by Key, 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.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 03 2009.