brick up

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.
   • The chest was bricked up into the wall.
   • We've encountered servers bricked up into secret rooms many times, but never a UPS hidden behind a locked door.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, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2022

   Synonyms:

   brick in

3. (colloquial, intransitive) To become constipated.
4. (Internet, transitive) To cause (someone) to have an erection.
   • She’s got a little meat along her lats and femur muscles that bricks me up more.2023, Lula White, Drink You (Explore Men of the Hamptons; 3), Lula White Books, →ISBN, page unknown
5. To build a supporting structure out of brick in order to form the containing walls of a mould.