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Goldbrick

noun
1.
A soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort.
2.
An idle worthless person.  Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account.
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.
verb
1.
Deprive of by deceit.  Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize.  "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" , "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
2.
Avoid (one's assigned duties).  Synonyms: fiddle, shirk, shrink from.



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