noun A hard rectangular block of baked clay or similar material, used for building walls.
- He picked up a loose brick and set it back into the wall.
- The old cottage was built from red brick over a century ago.
- They laid a fresh course of bricks along the garden wall.
noun Slang: an electronic device that has stopped working entirely, especially after a failed update.
- After the power cut during the update, my old tablet became a useless brick.
- Don't throw that dead console away; it is just a brick now.
- A botched firmware update turned his router into an expensive brick.
noun Slang: a compact block-shaped unit of something, such as a kilogram of a drug or an external power adapter.
- I keep the black brick for my monitor in the drawer under the desk.
- The brick on this camera charger is too big to fit into my small bag.
- The laptop's charger has a bulky brick in the middle of the cable.
verb To ruin an electronic device so badly that it becomes permanently unusable.
- If the power fails halfway through the upgrade, you could brick the whole device.
- He was afraid he would brick his games console by installing unofficial software.
- Installing the wrong software update can brick your phone.
verb To build or line something with bricks.
- They decided to brick the garden path rather than lay concrete.
- The builders will brick the inside of the new fireplace next week.
- The workers bricked up the old doorway.
