[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the United States, a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 centimeters), red, brown, or yellow in color:A couple of bricks, picked up at a demolition site, made fine bookends.", "blocks of hardened clay collectively as used for building, or the material of which they are made:The house is made of brick, but the porch is wooden.Clay brick can be returned to the earth without harm.", "any block or bar having a size and shape similar to that of the small, rectangular block of hardened clay commonly used for building:He kept a gold brick in his safe.Let’s buy a brick of ice cream to have with our strawberries.Agents recovered 58 bricks of cocaine in the raid.", "the length of a brick as a measure of thickness, as of a wall:one and a half bricks thick.", "Basketball.a missed shot, especially one that hits the rim or backboard badly:His first two foul shots were bricks, but the third bounced off the backboard and went in.", "Informal.an electronic device that has become completely nonfunctional:As soon as I leave the country, my phone turns into a brick.A hard enough impact will make your shiny new laptop become a very expensive brick.an old, heavy cell phone with limited capability (often used attributively):My very first cell phone was a Motorola brick.These brick phones only allowed people to make and receive calls and didn't even store phone numbers.", "an electronic device that has become completely nonfunctional:As soon as I leave the country, my phone turns into a brick.A hard enough impact will make your shiny new laptop become a very expensive brick.", "an old, heavy cell phone with limited capability (often used attributively):My very first cell phone was a Motorola brick.These brick phones only allowed people to make and receive calls and didn't even store phone numbers.", "power brick(def) power brick(def).", "Informal: Older Use.an admirably good or generous person."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to pave, line, wall, fill, or build with brick:He bricked our driveway and our patio, and did a great job.", "Informal.to cause (an electronic device) to become completely nonfunctional:I bricked my phone while doing the upgrade.Who’d have thought that just adding new fonts on a tablet would brick it?", "Basketball.to shoot a ball in such a way that it hits the rim or the backboard badly and does not go into the basket:She had four shots this period and bricked all but one."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["made of, constructed with, or resembling bricks:My grandparents lived in a small brick house."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to fill in or close up with bricks:They bricked up the tunnel at both ends so no one could use it.to enclose behind bricks:The car had been bricked up behind a false wall to hide it from the Germans during World War II.", "to fill in or close up with bricks:They bricked up the tunnel at both ends so no one could use it.", "to enclose behind bricks:The car had been bricked up behind a false wall to hide it from the Germans during World War II."]}]