(transitive) To have a sudden and significant impact.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make bricks without straws

simple past tense and past participle of make bricks without straws

present participle of make bricks without straws

Alternative form of make bricks without straw

(Britain) any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city

(idiomatic, often humorous) A proverbial path to a Promised Land of one's hopes and dreams.

Alternative form of yellow brick road

plural of red brick university

(New England, obsolete, idiomatic) Drunkenness.