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[–] 81 points 2 years ago (2 children)

please educate me what "brick" means here

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  • [–] 93 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    brick is also used as an insult in drag, i.e. β€œshe 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 β€œyou totally bricked that shot, you scrub”

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  • [–] 77 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Both of these usages of "brick" are more than 30 years old...

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I’m way older than that and didn’t know either one. Is antisportsball male a gender?

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  • [–] [S] 48 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    "I'm not homophobic, I'm just a hater" energy.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Gender-affirming mansplaining?

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 2 years ago*

    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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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Never heard the term brick. Learned a new thing.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    alzaidi-three-pointer "BRICK CITβ€”"

    meow-knife-trans

    ohnoes "NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

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  • [+] 12 points 2 years ago
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