brick vs paperweight

brick

noun
  • Something shaped like a brick. 

  • 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. 

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

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. 

adj
  • Extremely cold. 

paperweight

noun
  • A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away. 

  • Any object used for this purpose. 

  • A useless piece of equipment. 

How often have the words brick and paperweight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )