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Noun goldbricking has 1 sense
- shirking, slacking, soldiering, goofing off, goldbricking - the evasion of work or duty
--1 is a kind of evasion, escape, dodging
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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