'goldbrick' definitions:
Definition of 'goldbrick'
From: WordNet
noun
A soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
noun
An idle worthless person [syn: goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for- naught]
noun
A brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
noun
Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
verb
Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
verb
Avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" [syn: fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick]
Definition of 'goldbrick'
From: GCIDE
- goldbrick \gold"brick`\ n. an idle worthless person. [slang]
- Syn: goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'goldbrick'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- boiler room,
- bucket shop,
- bum,
- bunco game,
- bungler,
- clock watcher,
- con game,
- confidence game,
- cut,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- disregarder,
- do-nothing,
- dodge,
- dodger,
- dog it,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- drone,
- duck,
- duck duty,
- eye-servant,
- faineant,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- get out of,
- goldbricker,
- goof off,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- ignorer,
- jump,
- laggard,
- laze,
- lazy,
- leave,
- leave loose ends,
- leave undone,
- let alone,
- let be,
- let dangle,
- let go,
- lie-abed,
- lingerer,
- loaf,
- loafer,
- loiter,
- loiterer,
- loll,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounge,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- malinger,
- malingerer,
- miss,
- mope,
- moper,
- neglecter,
- negligent,
- not pull fair,
- old soldier,
- omit,
- pass over,
- pass up,
- plodder,
- potterer,
- pretermit,
- procrastinate,
- procrastinator,
- putterer,
- shell game,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- skin game,
- skip,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slack,
- slacker,
- sleepyhead,
- slide out of,
- slinker,
- slip out of,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- sloven,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- slut,
- snail,
- sneak out of,
- soldier,
- spiv,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- tax dodger,
- thimblerig,
- thimblerigging,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trifle,
- trifler,
- truant,
- waiter on Providence,
- welsh,
- welsher