What is "brickie"

Usage examples of "brickie".

The champion was named brickie of the month and achieved great renown.

Stop sounding like a brickie on a scaffold, Petro - I need to be disguised.

Coming from a broken home where violence was the norm, he lives alone in a squalid flat, working as a brickie when he can.

Somebody has to win, she would say, I've seen them on the telly, grinning brickies, office workers in syndicates, housewives, don't tell me that they've all been struck by lightning ten times.

He's absolutely massive, and | I try to imagine why someone who makes art documentaries *J for BBC2 should have the physique of a brickie.