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bricks
noun
in prison, the world outside the prison walls US- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 21, 1976
▶ hit the bricks- to leave, especially to leave prison US, 1931
- Maybe I could fly one of my magnetized copping kites (high voltage letters) when I hit the bricks, and steal a ’ho! — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 3, 1979
- Just say goodbye once, and then hit the bricks, you big-bottomed freaks, you. — Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy, p. 10, 2000
- to go on strike; to be on strike US, 1938
Also variants “on the bricks” or “pound the bricks”. - So I voted to strike–and now I’m pounding the bricks in front of the Mission Street Store. [Advertisement in support of striking Sears workers] — San Francisco Examiner, p. 26, 14 September 1947
- The grocer down at the corner has been giving me credit, but how long can he keep it up? He’s got maybe 10 or 15 guys on the bricks like me to take care of. — San Francisco Chronicle, This World, p. 2, 24 April 1949
- This nightmare mood helps explain why the members of the International Longshoremen’s Association have voted down a contract that promised them greater gains than any group of maritime workers this year and why they are clamoring to “hit the bricks” in a new port-wide shutdown. — New York Times, p. 8, 19 December 1954
▶ on the bricks
working as a street prostitute US- “Oh, they might treat you real nice at first, talk to you pretty, show you a good time, buy you pretty things, but before you know what’s happening they got you out on the bricks.” — Alix Shulman, On the Stroll, p. 22, 1981
▶ to the bricks
extremely, utterly, completely US, 1928- You sure are getting togged to the bricks, pal. [Freckles and His Friends comic strip] — San Francisco News, 23 May 1946
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 115, 1970
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