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gold-bricker

gold-bricker is the alternative form of goldbricker.

Meaning of goldbricker

Noun

goldbricker (plural goldbrickers)

  1. (US, informal) A lazy person; an idler.
    • Before hearing the response from the Department of Education, it is worth making one point. Ms. Rabenau, Mr. Schneider and Mr. Knox offer no sense of being complainers or goldbrickers.2007 July 4, Samuel G. Freedman, “So Much Paperwork, So Little Time to Teach”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    goldbrick
  2. (informal, rare) A cheater; a swindler.

Forms of gold-bricker

pluralgold-brickers

Questions about gold-bricker

What is gold-bricker the alternative form of?
Gold-bricker is the alternative form of goldbricker.

Words near gold-bricker in the dictionary

  1. gold-beating
  2. gold-breasted trumpeter
  3. gold-breasted trumpeters
  4. gold-brick
  5. gold-bricked
  6. gold-bricker
  7. gold-brickers
  8. gold-bricking
  9. gold-bricks
  10. gold-bright
  11. gold-bronze

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