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noun

ˈgōl(d)-ˌbrik How to pronounce goldbrick (audio)
Definition of goldbricknext
as in shirker
one who deliberately avoids work or duty the goldbricks among the colonists were warned: no work, no food

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goldbrick

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verb

as in to bum

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  1. bum
  2. hang around
  3. slacker
  4. idle
Verb
  • Picture a disheveled gambler, with his empty pockets sticking out, trying to bum a smoke from someone on the Las Vegas strip.
    Jay Paris, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • When someone in the music industry told him that Deconstruction had already broken up, the news deeply bummed him out.
    Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of bum
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  • This can be particularly true with groups who hang around their respective echo chambers.
    Zain Jaffer, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • That's because cold air that usually hangs around the North Pole and the Arctic usually stays put.
    Nate Perez, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of hang around
Noun
  • Consider Chatterton’s Fields of This, an exemplary case study, as the hazy slacker rock the Oxnard, California, duo of guitarist-keyboardist Brock Pierce and multi-instrumentalist Logan Scrivner dream up is brash yet diffident.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The birth of Spencer’s The first generation of shoppers to get hooked on Spencer’s weren’t the mallrat slackers of Gen-X or even the forever youthful Baby Boomers.
    Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of slacker
Verb
  • Our asphalt arrival gate was on the total opposite end of our idling overseas plane.
    Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Four of the company’s football production trucks, which house the wires, cable and servers to air NFL games, were idled close to Kingman, Ariz., last Tuesday night as everyone waited for the NFL to make a decision on the venue.
    Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of idle
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“Goldbrick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goldbrick. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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