Noun

Singular brick

Plural countable and uncountable; plural bricks

brick (countable and uncountable; plural bricks)

1. (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.

   This wall is made of bricks.

2. (uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.

   This house is made of brick.

3. (countable) Something shaped like a brick.

   a plastic explosive brick

4. (informal) A helpful and reliable person

   Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.

   • 1863, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Good Society; Or, Contrasts of Character, page 72:

     “It's easy to see you're a brick!” replied Lady Augusta, and the laugh again became general.

   • 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, page 168:

     ‘Somebody had to stay with you,’ said Bobbie. ‘Tell you what, Bobbie,’ said Jim, ‘you’re a brick. Shake.’

   • 1960, W.W. Jacobs, Cargoes, ISBN 0828314306, page 45:

     “Well, I’ll do what I can for you,” said the seaman, …“If you were only shorter, I'd lend you some clothes.” “You're a brick,” said the soldier gratefully.

5. (basketball) 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.

   We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.

6. (informal) 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. (technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

Derived terms

• 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

A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction, usually laid using mortar.

Brick is a 2005 film about Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a loner who seeks for the answers behind the death of his ex-girlfriend. Heavily inspired by such works as The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep.

Written and directed by Rian Johnson

Contents

• 1 Brendan Frye
• 2 The Pin
• 3 Others
• 4 Dialogue
• 5 External links

Brendan Frye

• I've got knives in my eyes, I'm going home sick.

• Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you.

• Which wall's the door in?

• You set that poor kid up! You held Dode like a card 'till you could play him.

• Maybe I'll just sit here and bleed at you.

• [in flashback] You're the only thing I love!

• I'm looking to find this big game the Pin's played, not to gum it, but just so when its tail jams in my back I'll know who to bill for the embalming.

The Pin

• Let's take you back upstairs. Back with the living.

• Where you were at, with all of us and the Tug a fist away, you've got to use your nut. Allay the situation. So, yeah, you're not scared of me, I got it, but I'm also thinking you're a little nuts now, so you've got that trade off with your standing. But nuts isn't all bad, so maybe it was a good play. I don't know.

Others

• Laura Dannon: Fearless flyer.

• Kara: Make sure you wanna know what you wanna know.

• Kara: Still wish you knew what you wanted to know?