Meaning & use
brick
A rectangular block of baked clay or similar material used to build walls and other structures.
See it in a sentence
The workers stacked the bricks neatly before starting to build the garden wall.
His old phone stopped working entirely and became nothing more than a useless brick.
A note on using this word
Informally, 'to brick' a device means to render it completely unusable, usually after a failed software update.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Informal: to render an electronic device permanently unusable, typically through a failed update.
A bad firmware update accidentally bricked hundreds of the company's routers overnight.
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