brick shithouses

A form of brick shithouse — An article built more robustly than its function requires; implying an element of indestructibility.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of brick shithouse

    Webster and I are brick shithouses, top to bottom. The wind doesn't even touch the smell of us."

    1987, Howard Fast, The Dinner Party, page 228
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    Seventeen and nineteen, they were, built like brick shithouses, one of them already with a baby.

    1993, Frances Hegarty, Half Light, page 174

    Two razor-scalped brick shithouses in suits, who looked like bouncers at a Hell's Angels dance, started staring at us.

    2004, Perry Brass, The Substance of God: A Spiritual Thriller, page 84
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