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Bricked vs Ricked - What's the difference?

bricked | ricked |

As verbs the difference between bricked and ricked

is that bricked is past tense of brick while ricked is past tense of rick.

bricked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (brick)

    • brick

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
    • This wall is made of bricks .
  • (uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
    • This house is made of brick .
  • (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
    • a plastic explosive brick
  • (dated) A helpful and reliable person.
    • Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick .
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  • (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
    • We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
  • (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
  • (technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
  • (firearms) a carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
  • (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

    • Derived terms

    * brick in one's hat * brickie * bricklayer * bricks and mortar * bricks and clicks * brick shithouse * drop a brick * hit the bricks * like a cat on a hot brick * like a ton of bricks * make bricks without straw * make bricks without straws * run into a brick wall * shit a brick * shit bricks * take to the bricks * talk to a brick wall * thick as a brick

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of brick(s).
    • All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney .

    Derived terms

    * brick shithouse

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To build with bricks.
  • * 1904 , Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining , C. Lockwood and Son, page 78
    • If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected
  • * 1914 , The Mining Engineer , Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
    • The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids.
  • To make into bricks.
  • * 1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
    • The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.
  • (slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
  • To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
    • My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm .
  • * 2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, Linux.com
    • installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.

    Antonyms

    * unbrick

    Derived terms

    * bricker * brick in * brick over * brick up * brick it

    See also

    * brickfielder

    External links

    * (wikipedia "brick") ----

    ricked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rick)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    rick

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , Icelandic (m).

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
  • *(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
  • *:There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks , rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows;.
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  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • (lb) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
    • Derived terms
    * rickburner

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) wricke

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.

    • Etymology 3

    Abbreviated form from recruit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, pejorative, and, demeaning) A brand new (naive ) boot camp inductee.
    • No turning back now rick, you are property of the US government, no longer protected by the bill of rights; you follow the UCMJ now.