GOLDBRICK
Dictionary entry overview: What does goldbrick mean?
• GOLDBRICK (noun)
The noun GOLDBRICK has 4 senses:
1. a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
2. an idle worthless person
3. a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
4. anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
Familiarity information: GOLDBRICK used as a noun is uncommon.
• GOLDBRICK (verb)
The verb GOLDBRICK has 2 senses:
1. deprive of by deceit
2. avoid (one's assigned duties)
Familiarity information: GOLDBRICK used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GOLDBRICK (noun)
Meaning:
A soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("goldbrick" is a kind of...):
shirker; slacker (a person who shirks their work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime))
soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)
Meaning:
An idle worthless person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
no-account; ne'er-do-well; goof-off; good-for-nothing; good-for-naught; goldbrick
Hypernyms ("goldbrick" is a kind of...):
bum; do-nothing; idler; layabout; loafer (person who does no work)
Meaning:
A brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("goldbrick" is a kind of...):
block; cube (a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides)
Meaning:
Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("goldbrick" is a kind of...):
dupery; fraud; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)
• GOLDBRICK (verb)
Meaning:
Deprive of by deceit
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
swindle; scam; rook; nobble; mulct; hornswoggle; gyp; goldbrick; gip; diddle; defraud; con; bunco; short-change; victimize
Context examples:
He swindled me out of my inheritance / She defrauded the customers who trusted her / the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
Hypernyms (to "goldbrick" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "goldbrick"):
short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Avoid (one's assigned duties)
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
shrink from; shirk; fiddle; goldbrick
Context example:
The derelict soldier shirked his duties
Hypernyms (to "goldbrick" is one way to...):
avoid (refrain from doing something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "goldbrick"):
scrimshank (British military language: avoid work)
malinger; skulk (avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill)
slack (avoid responsibilities and work, be idle)
Sentence frames:
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