Meaning of brick In English

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

  • The chimney was made of bricks.

  • red-brick houses

  • He was so embarrassed - his face went brick-red (= a dark red).

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

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

  • an ancient, Bluetoothless brick of a mobile phone

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

• 2 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!

• 3 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.

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