"have a brick in one's hat" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "See brick in one's hat.",
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          "ref": "1846 November 29, “Magnelia Pedestria; or, Leaves from a Pedestrian’s Note Book”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 33",
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        "To be drunk."
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        "(New England, idiomatic, obsolete) To be drunk."
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  "word": "have a brick in one's hat"
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  "etymology_text": "See brick in one's hat.",
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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having a brick in one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a brick in one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a brick in one's hat",
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        "past"
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        "To be drunk."
      ],
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        "(New England, idiomatic, obsolete) To be drunk."
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