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goldbrick (plural goldbricks)

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   • 1932, Rafael De Nogales, Memoirs Of A Soldier Of Fortune, Kessinger Publishing (2006), ISBN 9781428658349, page 98:

     These, as a rule, were not adverse to buying a goldbrick as long as they knew that there was a chance for them to dump it on somebody else afterwards with some profit.

   • 1932, in Harper’s Magazine, Volume 166,^[1] page 520:

     To-day, American attitude toward Europe is comparable to that of the country greenhorn who, having bought a goldbrick on Broadway, now fills the air not merely with the denunciation of the sharpers who tricked his credulity — […]

   • 1945, in the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Immigration Bulletin, Volumes 422-433,^[2] page 5:

     The average farmer may be less of a victim than some other people by reason of his isolation, conservatism, and hard earned money, but he, too, has too often bought a goldbrick that did not materialize.

   • c. 1967 Edmund Wilson, quoted in Lewis M. Dabney, Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature,^[3][4] Macmillan (2005), ISBN 9780374113124, page 485:

     […] that if he bought a goldbrick from Podhoretz for $25,000, he ought to pay me more than the $5,000 a volume that had been agreed on for the pure gold […]

2. Template:US Template:slang A shirker or malingerer
3. Template:US Template:slang A swindler

goldbrick (third-person singular simple present goldbricks, present participle goldbricking, simple past and past participle goldbricked)

1. Template:US Template:slang To shirk or malinger
2. Template:US Template:slang To swindle