gold-brick
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of goldbrick.
verb
Alternative form of goldbrick.
Example Sentences
- "Pomposity of style is confined to sellers of spurious goods, whether gold-bricks, medicines, or scholarships."
- "A species of swindle that has been perpetrated times without number all over this country is the old gold-brick game."
- "All of this costs money, but if we all determine to put our own shoulder to the wheel instead of seeing how we can gold-brick we can make Democracy work right here in our own state."
- "... great numbers of “happy employees who are extremely loyal to the organization because they can gold-brick, be apathetic, and be non-involved in worrying about the effectiveness of the company.”"
- "No; any man is likely to be stronger than any institution—a GI can gold-brick the Pentagon."