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Noun goldbrick has 4 senses
- goldbrick - a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
--1 is a kind of soldier; slacker, shirker
- 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
- goldbrick - a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
--3 is a kind of block, cube
- 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
- 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
- fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick - avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
--2 is one way to avoid
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
=> Somebody ----s
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