Definition of brick
- he threw up a brick
a house made of brick
a brick of ice cream
children playing with wooden bricks
He has been an absolute brick.
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blunder, bobble, boo-boo, clinker, error, fault, flub, fluff, fumble, gaff, gaffe, goof, inaccuracy, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, oversight, screwup, slip, slipup, stumble, trip;
accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, strictness;
bloomer, blooper, boner, howler, pratfall;
misapprehension, miscalculation, miscomprehension, misconception, misconstruction, miscue, misdescription, misimpression, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misreading, misstatement, misunderstanding;
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1592
: a small, hard block of baked clay that is used to build structures (such as houses) and sometimes to make streets, paths, etc.
: blocks of baked clay used as building material
: a block of something
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