brick vs flipper

brick

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. 

  • The colour brick red. 

  • An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete. 

  • A projectile. 

  • Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material. 

  • A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick. 

  • A kilogram of cocaine. 

  • Something shaped like a brick. 

  • A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand. 

adj
  • Extremely cold. 

verb
  • To blunder; to screw up. 

  • To make into bricks. 

  • To build, line, or form with bricks. 

  • 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. 

flipper

noun
  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

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