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built like a brick shithouse

1. slang Very muscular and strong. Bert is built like a brick shithouse, so get him to help you move all this furniture! A: "Wait, that's your little brother Robby? He used to be so scrawny!" B: "I know, he's built like a brick shithouse these days." If you keep up this workout regimen, in time, you'll be built like a brick shithouse.

2. slang Very buxom and curvaceous. Mary has a great body—she's built like a brick shithouse. Oh, it's fine if my blind date isn't built like a brick shithouse—I'm more of a leg man myself. I don't think Amanda's actually built like a brick shithouse—I hear she always wears very padded bras.

built like a brick shithouse

BRITISH, INFORMAL, VERY RUDE

If you say that someone is built like a brick shithouse, you mean that they are extremely tall, broad, and strong-looking. This guy was built like a brick shithouse, with a huge mustache and smouldering brown eyes. Note: You can use brick-shithouse before a noun to describe someone who looks like this. He brought his brick-shithouse mate with him. Note: A shithouse is a slang word for a toilet. A brick shithouse is a strong outside toilet built using bricks instead of wood, from the time before many houses had indoor bathrooms.

built like a brick shithouse

1. mod. pertaining to a very strong and well-built person. (Usually refers to a male. Refers to the sturdiness of an outhouse [outdoor toilet] built of brick rather than the traditional wooden outhouse. Usually objectionable.) Chuck is built like a brick shithouse. The only fat on him is where his brain ought to be.

2. mod. pertaining to a beautiful and curvaceous woman. (Refers to the imagined curving and uneven walls of an outhouse built hastily and carelessly of brick. This sense is a misinterpretation of the first sense. Usually objectionable.) Look at that dame! She’s really built like a brick shithouse.