English word senses marked with topical category "Bricks"

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Total 34 word senses

• Bricktown (Proper name) A neighborhood of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• Dutch clinker (Noun) A very hard, narrow, yellowish brick made in Holland, used to pave stables etc.
• brick (Noun) 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.
• brick (Verb) To make into bricks.
• brick (Verb) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
• brick in (Verb) To enclose with bricks.
• brick in one's hat (Noun) Drunkenness.
• brick it (Verb) To be scared; to be terrified.
• brick red (Adjective) Of a warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks.
• brick shithouse (Noun) A person with a well-developed body.
• brick up (Verb) To trap or seal in a closed space using bricks.
• brick-red (Adjective) Alternative form of brick red.
• bricker (Noun) A brickmaker.
• brickfielder (Noun) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.
• brickie (Noun) A bricklayer.
• bricks and clicks (Noun) Clicks and mortar.
• bricks and mortar (Noun) Alternative form of brick and mortar
• brickwork (Noun) A structure, or portion of a structure, that is made out of bricks.
• brickwork (Noun) The quality of the construction of a brick structure.
• brickworks (Noun) A place where bricks are made.
• drop a brick (Verb) Alternative form of drop a bombshell
• dumb as a brick (Adjective) Synonym of thick as a brick
• hit the bricks (Verb) To participate in a workplace strike or other job action; to participate in a public protest, especially one involving picketing.
• lath brick (Noun) A long, slender brick used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln.
• like a cat on a hot tin roof (Prepositional phrase) Jumpy, nervous.
• like a ton of bricks (Prepositional phrase) Very strongly; very heavily; often unexpectedly.
• make bricks without straw (Verb) To accomplish a task without the proper materials or under unreasonable conditions; to do the impossible.
• red brick university (Noun) Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.
• redbrick (Noun) Clipping of red brick university.
• sandstock (Noun) A kind of brick, originally made with sand
• shit a brick (Verb) To react strongly or excessively, especially in anger, fear, or astonishment.
• take to the bricks (Verb) Alternative form of hit the bricks (“participate in a strike”)
• talk to a brick wall (Verb) To be completely ignored or disregarded by someone, as if speaking to an inanimate object.
• thick as a brick (Adjective) Very stupid; slow to learn or understand.

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