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goldbrick

 
Noun goldbrick has 4 senses
  1. goldbrick - a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
    --1 is a kind of
    soldier; slacker, shirker
  2. goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught - an idle worthless person
    --2 is a kind of idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
  3. goldbrick - a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
    --3 is a kind of
    block, cube
  4. goldbrick - anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
    --4 is a kind of
    fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
Verb goldbrick has 2 senses
  1. victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
    --1 is one way to cheat, rip off, chisel
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
  2. fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick - avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
    --2 is one way to avoid
    Derived form: noun goldbricking1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    => Somebody ----s
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