Unbrickverb
(transitive) To reopen something bricked up.
Unbrickverb
To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).
Bricknoun
(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
Bricknoun
(uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
Bricknoun
(countable) Something shaped like a brick.
Bricknoun
A helpful and reliable person.
Bricknoun
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.
Bricknoun
(informal) 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.
Bricknoun
An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
Bricknoun
(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
Bricknoun
(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
Bricknoun
The colour brick red.
Brickadjective
Extremely cold.
Brickverb
To build with bricks.
Brickverb
To make into bricks.
Brickverb
(slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
Brickverb
To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
Bricknoun
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.
Bricknoun
Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
Bricknoun
Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
Bricknoun
A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
Brickverb
To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
Brickverb
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.
Bricknoun
rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
Bricknoun
a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
Bricknoun
a small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.
Bricknoun
bricks collectively as a building material
Bricknoun
a small rectangular object
Bricknoun
a child's toy building block
Bricknoun
a large and relatively heavy mobile phone, typically an early model with limited functionality
Bricknoun
a smartphone or other electronic device that has completely ceased to function
Bricknoun
a generous, helpful, and reliable person
Brickverb
block or enclose with a wall of bricks
Brickverb
throw bricks at
Brickverb
cause (a smartphone or other electronic device) to become completely unable to function, typically on a permanent basis
Brickverb
be extremely worried or nervous.
Brick
A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured construction blocks.