I. brick¹ S2 W3 /brɪk/ noun
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: brique, from Middle Dutch bricke]

1. [uncountable and countable] a hard block of baked clay used for building walls, houses etc:
a brick wall
a house made of brick
Protesters attacked the police with stones and bricks.

2. bricks and mortar houses – used especially when talking about them as an investment

3. [countable] British English a small square block of wood, plastic etc used as a toy

4. [countable] old-fashioned a good person who you can depend on when you are in trouble
⇒ be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall at head¹(31), ⇒ drop a brick at drop¹(27)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. brick² verb
be bricking it British English informal to feel very nervous or frightened
brick something ↔ off phrasal verb
to separate an area from a larger area by building a wall of bricks:
Some of the rooms had been bricked off.
brick something ↔ up/in phrasal verb
to fill or close a space by building a wall of bricks in it:
The windows were bricked up.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

brick
noun
ADJ. red a house of red brick
VERB + BRICK lay learning to lay bricks properly
BRICK + NOUN wall | building | works He got a job at the local brick works.
PREP. in/of ~ houses of brick
PHRASES brick by brick They moved the whole house, brick by brick.
bricks and mortar investing in bricks and mortar
a course of bricks They put an extra course of bricks round the pool.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

brick
brɪk
See: make bricks without straw

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