brick shithouse

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Noun

brick shithouse (plural brick shithouses)

1. (slang, vulgar) An article built more robustly than its function requires; implies an element of indestructability.
2. (slang, vulgar) A person with a well-developed body.
   • 2000, Shane Maloney, Nice Try: A Murray Whelan Mystery, page 75:

     Part Polynesian, part Melanesian, part brick shithouse. He crossed the gym with the proprietary waddle of a troll in its lair, […]

   • 2001, J. R. Parker, Winter Kill, page 9:

     He felt like he'd just slammed a brick shithouse.

   • 2002, Joseph Geren, Chastity's Virtue: A Michael Marcus Mystery, page 50:

     She looked really fine, a bonafide brick shithouse.

Derived terms

• built like a brick shithouse