noun
- plural of brick; rectangular blocks of baked clay used for building
- something very reliable or dependable
Usage: informal
Examples
- The workers laid thousands of bricks to build the wall.
- Red bricks covered the front of the old school building.
- She bought bricks and mortar to repair the chimney.
- The house was made entirely of yellow bricks.
- Those old phones were built like bricks – they never broke.
- He stacked the bricks carefully in the yard.