noun

• (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
  "This wall is made of bricks."
• (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
  "This house is made of brick."
• (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
  "a plastic explosive brick"
• (slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
  "Thanks for helping me wash the car. You’re a brick."

verb

• (transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
  "to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)"
• (transitive) To make into bricks.
  "The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter."
• (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
• (transitive, computing slang) To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
  "My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm."

adj

• (colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New York, of weather) Extremely cold.
  "And while the tropics are definitely the place to be when it's brick outside, rocking a snorkel on the beach only works when you're snorkeling."