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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A bar of gilded cheap metal that appears to be genuine gold.
  2. n. A fraudulent, worthless substitute.

Examples

  • “Speaking of small heads naturally calls to mind a gold brick named Solomon Saunders that I bought when I was a good deal younger and hadn't been buncoed so often.”

    Old Gorgon Graham

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. goof-off
  1. ne'er-do-well
  1. good-for-nothing
  1. good-for-naught

hypernyms (16)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. soldier
  2. shirker
  3. slacker
  1. fraudulence
  2. put-on
  3. hoax
  1. humbug
  2. dupery
  3. fraud
  1. idler
  2. bum
  3. loafer
  1. do-nothing
  2. layabout
  3. block
  1. cube

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. goldbrick

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