brick

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a rectangular block of hard material used for building walls and houses:

The chimney was made of bricks.

The stark structure is built from concrete, brick, and glass.

a brick wall/building/fireplace

a row of Victorian brick houses

an electronic device, such as a smartphone, that cannot be used at all:

Without a fast connection, your tablet turns into a brick.

an early mobile phone that was thick and heavy compared to newer phones:

an ancient brick of a mobile phone

Instead of a nearly 2-pound brick, today's cell phone weighs as little as 3 ounces.

a very helpful and kind person who can be trusted:

Thanks for bringing all that food along to the party, Tony. You're a brick!

especially in the game of basketball, an attempt to score points that misses the target by a long way:

That guy throws up nothing but bricks.

to cause a problem in an electronic device so that it cannot be used at all; to develop a problem like this:

The update wiped out users' applications, and "bricked" some phones.

I saw a warning message, then the phone bricked.

a rectangular block of hard material used for building walls and houses