English Dictionary

brick

/bɹɪk/

noun

(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. / (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.

He used a brick to build the wall.

意味（1）

(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.

This wall is made of bricks.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.

This house is made of brick.

意味（3）

(countable) Something shaped like a brick.

a plastic explosive brick

意味（4）

(slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.

Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.

意味（5）

(basketball, slang) 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.

We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.

意味（6）

(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.

意味（7）

(computing slang, figuratively) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

意味（8）

(UK, naval, slang) A projectile.

I was on deck watching the firing, and looking at the direction in which our guns were pointing, it was obvious that it was not going to be Centurion who was going to receive our bricks.

意味（9）

(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.

意味（10）

(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.

意味（11）

The colour brick red.

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意味（12）

(slang) A kilogram of cocaine.

I can sell bricks, I don't need to rap

Buj so peng it makes the fiends collapse

Cook that coca into crack

I can sell bricks, I don't need to rap Buj so peng it makes the fiends collapse Cook that coca into crack I was selling Zs while you was in your bed