Brick (disambiguation)

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

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 ""
*Brick is the name of a young, drug-using, city troll living in Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld novel "Thud%21" by Terry Pratchett

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
*A brick may refer to a individual piece in LEGO building blocks.

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
*"Thick as a Brick", an album by Jethro Tull

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

ports

*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.

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 (slang), for extremely cold Weather 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