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.

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