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The term gold brick or goldbrick is dated American slang for a swindle selling a putative gold bar, by extension a swindle or swindler generally, more generally shrinking (slacking) or a shirker (slacker). It can also refer to:
- A gold bar.
- Goldbricking, is the avoidance of work or engaging in personal activities while at work.
- Gold Bricks, an album by Fuck.
- Gold Brickers, an enemy group in the video game City of Villains.
- "Gold bricks" are special items in several of the LEGO video games by TT Games.
- Gold Brick (candy) is a chocolate bar manufactured by Elmer Candy Corporation.
Usage examples of "gold brick".
A 75-kilogram gold brick slides down the pile like a runaway boxcar, emerging suddenly from the cloud of dust, and he jumps out of its way.
The Spanish Lottery, the Jamaican Handkerchief, the Priceless Pooch, and Put and Take, the Gold Brick, the Pigeon Drop.
The buildings' pale-gold brick closed in on either side, bridges sliding over their heads, flotsam bobbing around their upcurved prow.
Royal Poinciana Hospital was a twelve-story pale gold brick edifice that rose at the east end of Eucalyptus Street.
They'd grill me about the counterfeit and the gold brick and the bracelet.
It says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
Pussy Galore said sternly, 'If you set fire to that thing I swear I'll kayo you with my gold brick.