Usually means: Shirking duties under false pretenses.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. goldbrick: Merriam-Webster
  2. goldbrick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goldbrick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goldbrick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. goldbrick: Vocabulary.com
  6. goldbrick: Wordnik
  7. goldbrick: Wiktionary
  8. goldbrick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. goldbrick: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. goldbrick: Dictionary.com
  11. goldbrick: Rhymezone
  12. goldbrick: FreeDictionary.org
  13. goldbrick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Goldbrick: The Word Detective
  15. goldbrick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. goldbrick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. goldbrick: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. goldbrick: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. goldbrick: A Word A Day
  2. goldbrick: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. goldbrick, goldbrick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. goldbrick: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (goldbrick)

▸ noun:  Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.
▸ noun:  (US, slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
▸ noun:  (US, slang, dated) A swindler.
▸ verb:  (US, slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
▸ verb:  (US, slang, dated) To swindle.

Similar:
goof-off, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, scam, swindle, fake, racket, sell, trick, bogus, more...

Opposite:
hard worker, diligent, productive, efficient

Phrases:
goldbrick shares, more...

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Similar:
goof-off, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, scam, swindle, fake, racket, sell, trick, bogus, more...

Opposite:
hard worker, diligent, productive, efficient

Phrases:
goldbrick shares, more...



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