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1. A soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
    
2. An idle worthless person
   - goof-off [N. Amer], ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naught
    
3. A brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
    
4. Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless

1. Deprive of by deceit
   "He goldbricked me out of my inheritance";
   - victimize, swindle, rook, nobble [Brit], diddle, bunco [N. Amer], defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle [N. Amer], short-change, con, victimise [Brit], ream [N. Amer], grift [N. Amer], bunko
    
2. Avoid (one's assigned duties)
   "The derelict soldier goldbricked his duties";
   - fiddle, shirk, shrink from

Derived forms: goldbricks, goldbricked, goldbricking

Type of: avoid, block, bum [N. Amer], cheat, chisel, cube, do-nothing, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, idler, layabout, loafer, pongo [Brit], put-on, rip off, shirker, slacker, soldier, spoof

Encyclopedia: Goldbrick