brick

IPA: brˈɪk

(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
(uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
(countable) Something shaped like a brick.
(slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
(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.
(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.
(computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
(UK, naval, slang) A projectile.
(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
The colour brick red.
(slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
A surname.

(transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
(transitive) To make into bricks.
(transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
(transitive, computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
(intransitive, computing slang, of an electronic device) To become nonfunctional, especially in a way beyond repair.
(intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.

(colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New York, New England, of weather) Extremely cold.

Examples of "brick" in Sentences

The walls of the building are composed of brick.
The AC ballast was about the size of a building brick.
The bricks and mortar around the building were replaced.
Many of the bricks in the walls were handmade at the building site.
The building is considered one of the main pieces of Brick Expressionism.
The exterior mortar and brick of the building buckled and the roof leaked.
The exterior walls taper slightly outward on the brick sides of the building.
The exterior of the building is built of brick, in a featureless modern style.
The brick building seen to the left of the church is the former Gressle School.
The mill was in the large, brick building on the corner of Elm and Main Streets.