Brick (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Fiction 2 Games 3 Music 4 Places 5 Sports 6 Other uses

A brick is an artificial stone made by forming clay into hardened rectangular blocks. Brick may also refer to:

[edit] Fiction

• Brick (comics), a DC Comics supervillain to Green Arrow
• Brick (film), a 2006 movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Brick Pollitt, the name of one of the main characters in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Brick Tamland, the name of a character in the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Brick is the name of a young, drug-using, city troll living in Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld novel Thud! by Terry Pratchett

[edit] Games

• Brick, a puzzle game similar to Tetris
• Bricks, a remake of the Windows puzzle game, Klotski
• Brick, a game on the iPod that originated from Breakout
• A "brick" or "tank", a character in role-playing and other games whose primary role is to sustain damage and act as a shield for weaker allies
• brick (electronics), a term that is used when a video game console or portable video gaming device is no longer bootable (the system becomes a proverbial brick), usually as a result of modifying the system's firmware
• A brick in poker is an undesirable or unhelpful card, such as a card that makes a pair in a lowball game

[edit] Music

• "Brick" (song), a song by Ben Folds Five
• Brick (Talking Heads), an album by the Talking Heads
• Brick (band), an Atlanta, Georgia, based R&B/Disco band of the late 1970s

[edit] Places

• Brick Township, New Jersey, located in central New Jersey
• BRIC, an acronym referring to the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China as a group
• Brick City or Bricks, a slang term referring to Newark, New Jersey

[edit] Sports

• Brick (basketball), to hit the backboard with the ball but not make a basket
• A brick, in Ultimate, any pull that initially lands out-of-bounds, untouched by the receiving team
• Brick (triathlon), a training workout that combines 2 of the 3 sports of triathlon (swim, bike, and run). For example, a swim-bike brick would combine a swim workout immediately followed by a bike workout.

[edit] Other uses

• Brick (dough), a thin-layered dough used in north African cuisine
• Brick (firecracker), a large package of firecrackers containing 80 packs (each pack generally has 16 firecrackers)
• Brick (moth), a species of moth
• BRICKS (software) Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services, an open-source software framework for managing distributed digital assets
• Brick, slang for a small unit in the military
• Brick (slang), is a kilo of Cocaine in slang terms
• Brick (electronics), an electronic device which cannot function (or has been rendered useless by damaged firmware) and is considered useful only as a brick; a mains to low voltage DC power adapter supplied with electronics devices
• Alcatel-Lucent VPN Firewall Brick family of security devices
• The Brick, a chain of Canadian furniture stores
• Brick (automobile) or turbobrick, term used to describe cars manufactured by Volvo AB from the late 1960's to the early 1990's
• Bricks and mortar business refers to the physical presence of a store or business, or more traditionally to investment in houses and other buildings
• Bath brick, a brick formerly used for cleaning
• Brick Breaker, another name for the Breakout arcade game
• Thick as a Brick, an album by Jethro Tull
• Red Brick (database), a RDBMS optimized for data warehousing by Ralph Kimball's company of the same name. Now owned by IBM.