Brick

Noun

 * 1)  A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
 * 2)  Considered collectively, as a building material.
 * 3)  Something shaped like a brick.
 * 4)  A helpful and reliable person
 * 5)  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.
 * 6)  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.
 * 7)  An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

Adjective

 * 1) Made of brick(s).

Verb

 * 1) To build with bricks.
 * 2) To make into bricks.
 * 3)  To hit someone using a brick.
 * 4)  To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
 * 5) _ To be in a high state of anxiety or fright: "Bricking it"

Derived terms

 * bricker
 * brick in
 * brick over
 * brick up
 * brick in
 * brick shithouse
 * brick up
 * brickie
 * bricklayer
 * bricks and mortar
 * bricks and clicks
 * brick shithouse
 * drop a brick
 * hit the bricks
 * like a cat on a hot brick
 * like a ton of bricks
 * make bricks without straw
 * make bricks without straws
 * run into a brick wall
 * shit a brick
 * shit bricks
 * take to the bricks
 * talk to a brick wall
 * thick as a brick

Etymology
Recorded since 1416, from briche, probably from a Germanic source akin to Middle Dutch bricke "a tile", literally "a broken piece", from the verbal root of break

Antonyms

 * (technology, slang: revert a device to the operational state): unbrick