Definition of "brick" []

• A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material. (noun)
• An object shaped like such a block: a brick of cheese. (noun)
• Informal A helpful, reliable person. (noun)
• To construct, line, or pave with bricks. (verb-transitive)
• To close or wall with brick: bricked up the windows of the old house. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "AWAD: Well, the center of gravity economically has shifted to what they call the brick countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China."
• "The little town of Malvern, Arkansas, is somewhere between Little Rock and my hometown of Hope on Interstate 30 and, during my re - election campaign for lieutenant governor, I was in the courthouse square doing what they call brick fest, which is a festival they have every summer."
• "He had bought in town a little china match-safe, which he gravely presented to Mrs. Whaling as a slight addition to the collection of what she termed her brick-a-braw."