Brick (disambiguation)
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Brick can refer to any of several things:
- A building brick used for construction.
- A puzzle game similar to Tetris
- To "brick" in basketball is to hit the backboard with the ball but not make a basket.
- A brick in Ultimate is any pull that initially lands out-of-bounds, untouched by the receiving team.
- In role-playing games, a brick is a character whose main useful skill is being able to take a great deal of damage (usually physical damage) and act as a shield for weaker allies. These characters are also usually quite strong, but slow. These are also called tanks or meat shields.
- A large quantity of compressed drugs, usually marijuana.
- A large quantity of banknotes (bills), in any denomination, arranged in a stack.
- A slang term for large and out-dated mobile phones, particularly from the mid 1980s to the early or mid 1990's.
- The Brick is a species of moth.
- A brick can also be a slang term used to describe an electronic device which cannot function (or has been rendered useless by malicious software) and is considered as useful as a brick - see also Bricked
- A slang term for extremely cold weather.
- Brick Township, New Jersey, is located in southeast New Jersey.
- Bricks and mortar business refers to the physical presence of a store or business, or more traditionally to investment in houses and other buildings.
- BRIC refers to Brazil, Russia, India, and China as emerging major economies.
Media
- Brick is the name of a song by Ben Folds.
- A 2005 film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
- Brick (Talking Heads) a musical album.
- Thick as a Brick a musical album by Jethro Tull
- Brick Tamland is the name of a character in the movie .
- Brick (comics), a DC Comics supervillain to Green Arrow
See also
- Bath brick, a brick formerly used for cleaning
- Brick Breaker
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