Brick (disambiguation)
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A brick is an artificial stone made by forming clay into rectangular blocks which are hardened.
Brick may also refer to:
[edit] Fiction
- Brick (comics), a DC Comics supervillain to Green Arrow
- Brick (film), a 2005 movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Brick Tamland, the name of a character in the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Brick is the name of a young, drug using, city troll living in Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld novel Thud! by Terry Pratchett
[edit] Games
- Brick, a puzzle game similar to Tetris
- A brick, in role-playing games, 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
- Brick, a game on the iPod that originated from Breakout.
[edit] Music
- "Brick" (song), a song by Ben Folds Five
- Brick (Talking Heads), an album by the Talking Heads
- "Brick" (band), An Atlanta, GA R&B/Disco band of the late 1970s. Had number one R&B hit, "Dazz"
[edit] Places
- Brick Township, New Jersey, is located in southeast New Jersey
- BRIC refers to Brazil, Russia, India, and China as emerging major economies.
[edit] Sports
- Brick (basketball), to hit the backboard with the ball but not make a basket
- A brick, in Ultimate, any pull that initially lands out-of-bounds, untouched by the receiving team
- Brick (triathlon), a training workout that combines 2 of the 3 sports of triathlon (swim, bike, and run). For example, a swim-bike brick would combine a swim workout immediately followed by a bike workout.
[edit] Other uses
- Brick (dough), a thin-layered dough used in north African cuisine
- Brick (moth), a species of moth
- Brick, slang for a small unit in the military.
- Brick (electronics), an electronic device which cannot function (or has been rendered useless by malicious software) and is considered useful only as a brick.
- A slang term for extremely cold weather.
- Brick, a large quantity of compressed drugs, usually marijuana.
- Brick, a large quantity of banknotes (bills), in any denomination, arranged in a stack.
- Brick, a slang term for large and out-dated mobile phones, particularly from the mid 1980s to the early or mid 1990's
- Lucent VPN Firewall Brick family of security devices [1]
[edit] See also
- Bricks and mortar business refers to the physical presence of a store or business, or more traditionally to investment in houses and other buildings
- Bath brick, a brick formerly used for cleaning
- Brick Breaker, another name for the Breakout arcade game
- Thick as a Brick, an album by Jethro Tull
