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🧱Brick EmojiUnicode: 1F9F1
A red building brick. Used to roast bad jokes, flex gains, or say something is solid.
Released in Released in 2010 with Unicode 6.0
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Meaning and Interpretation
🧱 Yo, so this is just a plain old brick. But in slang, if someone is 'built like a brick house', it means they're super muscular and solid. You can also use it to 'roast' someone's bad joke by saying it was 'as funny as a brick'. Or if you're working hard and stacking paper, you're putting in that 'brick by brick' work. Basically, it means something is heavy, hard, or just plain lame.
Symbolism
- Solidity and strength
- Hard work and building
- Lame or unfunny (when used as an insult)
Common Usage Scenarios
- When you're at the gym and your buddy is flexing his massive gains.
- Someone tells a really bad joke and you need to roast them instantly.
- Talking about the grind—building your business or life from the ground up.
- Someone is being stubborn or acting like a total blockhead.
- Describing something that is super basic and plain.
Usage Examples in Conversation
Yo, you're seriously getting built like a brick house 💪🧱
Bro that joke was dead 💀 straight up brick 🧱
Just gotta keep grinding, brick by brick 🧱🔥
Stop being such a stubborn brick and just listen to me 🧱🙄
My phone dropped on my foot and it feels like I got hit by a literal brick 🧱😭
Usage Guidelines and Etiquette
- Use 'brick' to describe someone super muscular.
- Send this emoji to instantly roast a terrible joke.
- Use it when talking about the 'grind' and hustling hard.
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