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brick it

brick it verb: to be scared; to be terrified.

Verb

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

  1. (slang, vulgar) To be scared; to be terrified.
    • The first time I performed in public I was bricking it.
    • I always replied with a casual and breezy ‘Iʼll be fine,’ but deep down I was bricking it.2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 70

brick it meaning in Bengali

brick it in Bengali

ভীত হওয়া, আতঙ্কিত হওয়া

Forms of brick it

third-person singular presentbricks it
present participlebricking it
past participlebricked it
pastbricked it

Origin of brick it

Related to shit a brick.

Questions about brick it

What does brick it mean?
Brick it means to be scared; to be terrified.
What is brick it in Bengali?
Brick it in Bengali is ভীত হওয়া, আতঙ্কিত হওয়া. See Brick it meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is brick it?
Brick it is a verb.
What is the past tense of brick it?
The past tense of brick it is bricked it.

Words near brick it in the dictionary

  1. brick hammers
  2. brick house
  3. brick houses
  4. brick in
  5. brick in one's hat
  6. brick it
  7. brick joke
  8. brick jokes
  9. brick off
  10. brick oneself
  11. brick over

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brick it (page history and authors); brick it (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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