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goldbrick
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gold·brick  (gldbrk) Slang
n.
A person, especially a soldier, who avoids assigned duties or work; a shirker.
v. gold·bricked, gold·brick·ing, gold·bricks
v.intr.
To shirk one's assigned duties or responsibilities.
v.tr.
To cheat; swindle.

goldbricker n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.goldbrick - a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
shirker, slacker - a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
soldier - an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention"
2.goldbrick - an idle worthless person
do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, bum - person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
3.goldbrick - a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
cube, block - a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
4.goldbrick - anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
dupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraud, fraudulence - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
figure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Verb1.goldbrick - deprive of by deceitgoldbrick - 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"
short, short-change - cheat someone by not returning him enough money
cheat, rip off, chisel - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
2.goldbrick - avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
avoid - refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
scrimshank - British military language: avoid work
malinger, skulk - avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
slack - avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
Translations
goldbrick [ˈgəʊldˈbrɪk] (US)
A. N
1. (= worthless thing) → timo m
2. (Mil) (= shirker) → gandul m
B. VIescurrir el bulto


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