Goldbrick

Quick meaning: Goldbrick is a noun meaning Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.

Meaning

Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.

More Meanings

1. (US, slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
2. (US, slang, dated) A swindler.
3. (US, slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
4. (US, slang, dated) To swindle.

Example Sentences

I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.

Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale.

Tell me that I’ve been a louse and loafer You won’t get a fight here, no ma’am Say I’m a goldbrick, a goof-off, no good But that couldn’t be all that I am

[…] that if he bought a goldbrick from Podhoretz for $25,000, he ought to pay me more than the $5,000 a volume that had been agreed on for the pure gold […]

Word Forms

• goldbricks
• gold-brick
• gold brick
• goldbricking
• goldbricked

Synonyms for goldbrick

Depending on context, synonyms include goldbricker, good-for-nothing, goof-off, good-for-naught.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include goof-off, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, shirk, scam, swindle.

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