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goldbricking

 
Noun goldbricking has 1 sense
  1. shirking, slacking, soldiering, goofing off, goldbricking - the evasion of work or duty
    --1 is a kind of evasion, escape, dodging
    Derived form: verb goldbrick2
Verb goldbrick has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick - avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
    --2 is one way to avoid
    Derived form: noun goldbricking1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    => Somebody ----s
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