- goldbrick⇄goldbrick, verb, noun.
(Informal.) - goldbrick⇄noun goldbricker.
- goldbrick⇄noun 1. a person, especially in the army or navy, who avoids duty or shirks work.
2. gold brick.
Ex. Is the peaceful atom, then a goldbrick, a fiasco, a flop? (David E. Lilienthal). - goldbrick⇄v.i. 1. to avoid duties by any evasion or excuse, such as pretended illness.
Ex. The medics found that the airmen, far from goldbricking, had a baffling variety of symptoms (Time).
2. to swindle, as by means of a gold brick.
Ex. He wou - goldbrick⇄v.t. to swindle; cheat.