Brick (disambiguation)
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A brick is an artificial stone made by forming clay into hardened rectangular blocks.
Brick may also refer to:
Places
- Brick City, a nickname for Newark, New Jersey, incorporated in 1693
- Brick Township, New Jersey, incorporated 1850
- BRICK, an acronym coined in 2001 referring to Brazil, Russia, India, China and Korea (see BRIC)
- The Brick Theater, a theater established in 2002 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Businesses
- Brick Brewing Company, a Canadian beer brewer
- The Brick, a Canadian furniture retailer
- The Brick, a bar in Roslyn, Washington, USA, featured in the 1990s television series Northern Exposure
Technology
- Brick, French for a brig, a type of sailing vessel, with the word being brought over to English rather than translated
- Brick (electronics) (noun), a nonfunctioning electronic device; (verb) to render an electronic device unusable by modification
- Bath brick, a cleaning tool
- Millwall brick, an improvised blunt weapon made out of newspaper
- Motorola DynaTAC, an early cellular phone commonly referred to as "the brick"
- Power brick, an AC adapter power supply
- A Lego piece
Media and entertainment
- Brick (band), an American band active 1972 to 1988
- Brick (Brick album), the band's 1977 album
- Brick (magazine), a literary magazine established in 1977
- "Brick" (song), a 1997 song by Ben Folds Five
- Brick (Talking Heads album), an album released in 2005 also known simply as Talking Heads, by Talking Heads
- Brick (film), a 2005 American neo-noir thriller film
- Brick (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film
Characters
- Brick (comics), a DC Comics character
- Brick Pollitt, a character in the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Brick Tamland, a character in the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Brick, a character in the Discworld novel Thud!
- Brick, a member of The Rowdyruff Boys, a group of characters in the animated series The Powerpuff Girls
- Brick the Berserker, from the video game Borderlands
- Dr. Brick Breeland, a character portrayed by Tim Matheson on the TV show Hart of Dixie
- Brick Heck, a character portrayed by Atticus Shaffer on the TV show The Middle
Other uses
- Brick (surname)
- Brick (basketball), a slang term
- Brick (moth)
- Brick cheese a cheese from Wisconsin, USA
- El ladrillo (The Brick), a highly influential text on Chilean economy
- A poker term
- 1 kilogram of cocaine
- A type of back-to-back triathlon workout involving two disciplines, most commonly cycling and running
- Nickname of Norman MacArthur (born 1950), shinty player and manager