brick up

English

Verb

brick up (third-person singular simple present bricks up, present participle bricking up, simple past and past participle bricked up)

1. (transitive) To block or cover using bricks.

   I am going to brick up the window instead of replacing the glass.

   The tunnel's mouth was bricked up because it was unsafe.

2. (transitive) To trap or seal in a closed space using bricks.

   Synonym: brick in

   The chest was bricked up into the wall.

   • 2020 December 11, Richard Speed, “Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there”, in The Register‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-01-20:

     We've encountered servers bricked up into secret rooms many times, but never a UPS hidden behind a locked door.

3. (transitive, slang) To cause (someone) to have an erection.
   • 2023, Lula White, Drink You (Explore Men of the Hamptons; 3), Lula White Books, →ISBN, page unknown:

     She’s got a little meat along her lats and femur muscles that bricks me up more.

Related terms

• bricked up

 

Translations

to block by masonry

• Finnish: muurata umpeen
• German: zumauern (de)
• Portuguese: tijolar
• Russian: замуровать (ru) (zamurovatʹ)
• Swedish: mura igen, mura för

References

• “to brick up” under “brick, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “brick up”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.