Brick Definition

brĭk

bricked, bricking, bricks

noun

A substance made from clay molded into oblong blocks and fired in a kiln or baked in the sun, used in building, paving, etc.

Webster's New World

One of these blocks, of any of various standard sizes.

Webster's New World

Such blocks of clay used as a building material.

A house made of brick.

American Heritage

Bricks collectively.

Webster's New World

Anything shaped like a brick.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
oven
malm-brick
layer
house
stone
block
adobe (unburnt and dried in the sun)
tile
adobe
chunk
masonry
glass brick
cinder-block
cement block
pressed brick

verb

To face, pave, etc. with brick.

Webster's New World

To close or wall with brick.

Bricked up the windows of the old house.

American Heritage

(slang) To hit someone using a brick.

Wiktionary

(computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.

My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.

Wiktionary

adjective

Built or paved with brick.

Webster's New World

Like brick.

Brick red.

Webster's New World

idiom

drop a brick

To make a clumsy social error.

American Heritage

brick up

to close or wall in with brick

Webster's New World

hit the bricks

to go out on strike

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Brick

Noun

Singular:

brick

Plural:

bricks

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Brick

Origin of Brick

From Middle French brique, probably from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch bricke (“broken piece; tile”). Cognate with the verb break.

From Wiktionary
Middle English brike from Middle Dutch bricke

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition