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, 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.

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