Definitions for Brick

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Brick brick

Spelling: [brik]

IPA: /brɪk/

Brick is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in Brick (bcikr).

Definitions for Brick

noun

1. a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
2. such blocks collectively.
3. the material of which such blocks are made.
4. any block or bar having a similar size and shape:
5. the length of a brick as a measure of thickness, as of a wall:
6. Informal. an admirably good or generous person.
7. Informal. an electronic device that has become completely nonfunctional.

Idioms

1. drop a brick, to make a social gaffe or blunder, especially an indiscreet remark.
2. hit the bricks, to walk the streets, especially as an unemployed or homeless person. to go on strike: Also, take to the bricks.
3. make bricks without straw, to plan or act on a false premise or unrealistic basis. to create something that will not last: to perform a task despite the lack of necessary materials.

adjective

1. made of, constructed with, or resembling bricks.

verb (used with object)

1. to pave, line, wall, fill, or build with brick.
2. Informal. to cause (an electronic device) to become completely nonfunctional:

Origin of Brick

1400-50; late Middle English brike Middle Dutch bricke; akin to break

Examples for Brick

They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

What others had done in brick he could do with the help of more costly materials.

Brooklyn is brick walls, little shops and industrial decoration.

In the beginning, a star, when drawn with a nail into a brick looked as follows.

I was right by his very side at the time, and see him see the brick and see him reconnize it.

It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.

Once a cadet dropped a brick from a third-story barracks window that barely missed Jackson.

You do like I tells yer, or yer'll git yer eggercation wid a brick.

They use autoclaves, which work like pressure cookers, instead of brick ovens.

And in Italy, the 16th-century body of an old woman was dug up in 2006 with a brick in her mouth.