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please educate me what “brick” means here

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brick is also used as an insult in drag, i.e. “she looks like a total brick. her makeup and outfit are obviously terrible.”

but they meant it as in brick like in basketball as to miss a shot, i.e “you totally bricked that shot, you scrub”

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to further explain: it specifically hails from street ball courts, often wedged between urban apartment buildings, which were often brick buildings. “bricking” is shooting a shot so wild as to miss the backboard completely and hit the brick building behind the court.

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I always thought it was because the shot was thrown like a brick, meaning with a poor arc to the basket. The ball can’t make it through the hoop easily without a high arc on the shot.

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Can people stop making up new words! My decrepit 30 something ass can’t handle it anymore!

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49 points

Both of these usages of “brick” are more than 30 years old…

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Sinny rizz, cousin. If you don’t have the sauce to fly don’t buy your ticket on TripAdvisor, my gangster disciple.

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13 points

skibidi skibidi skibidi

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28 points

HexBear, always teaching me stuff i definitely did not know. I thought it was a joke about mansplaining.

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I just learned I am a brick darn

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it’s okay, as long as you keep showing up to the court and keep practicing your free throws, you’ll see improvement.

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a brick is a trans woman who doesn’t pass*, but he meant it in the basketball sense as in “you fucked up that shot”

*primarily used by self hating trans women in ny experience, so it makes sense that he wouldn’t know it

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a brick is a trans woman who doesn’t pass*

Changing my name to Attila the Brick for the next 18 months

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Oh goodness, I didn’t know either and thought it must have been something to do with Stonewall.

Now I can’t decide which interpretation is worse.

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Now days it’s being used as an insult to TERF women. They say they have trouble passing, many such cases.

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Thanks,

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I don’t know either the basketball or the traphobic term 😭. Too much of a himbo to have any xontext for this

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“I’m not homophobic, I’m just a hater” energy.

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Gender-affirming mansplaining?

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a brick is a trans woman who doesn’t pass*, so he was apologizing and explaining that that wasn’t what he meant. idk if that’s mansplaining?

*primarily used by self hating trans women in ny experience, so it makes sense that he wouldn’t know it

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20 points

all i had to do was scroll a little bit further to see that someone thought the same thing I did.

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5 points

Thirded

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22 points

“BRICK CIT—”

“NO NOT LIKE THAT!”

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