noun. A person, especially a soldier, who avoids assigned duties or work; a shirker.

intransitive verb. To shirk one's assigned duties or responsibilities.

intransitive verb. To cheat; swindle.

noun. an idle worthless person.

noun. A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; also used figuratively.

noun. A shirker or malingerer

noun. A swindler

verb. To shirk or malinger

verb. To swindle

noun. a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort

verb. avoid (one's assigned duties)

noun. anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless

noun. an idle worthless person

verb. deprive of by deceit

noun. a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not

"Such activities might have included producing vituperative TV ads calling a decorated-war-hero senator a goldbrick, or sponsoring hysterical Web sites accusing the president's father of being King Faisal's fifth wife."

block  bum  cube  do-nothing  dupery  

abandon  boiler room  bucket shop  bum  bunco game  

goldbricking  goldbricks