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▸ noun: (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
▸ noun: (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
▸ noun: The colour brick red.
▸ noun: (slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
▸ noun: (UK, naval, slang) A projectile.
▸ noun: (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
▸ noun: (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
▸ noun: (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
▸ noun: (LGBTQ slang, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman who does not pass.
▸ verb: (transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make into bricks.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing slang) To make an electronic device non-functional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
▸ verb: (intransitive, computing slang) Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.
▸ adjective: (colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New York, of weather) Extremely cold.
▸ noun: A surname.
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