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goldbrick
1. noun
a) A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent;

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.

b) A shirker or malingerer

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 —

2. verb
a) To shirk or malinger
b) To swindle

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