Brick

Focus Features presents a Bergman Lustig production. A Film by Rian Johnson. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Brick. Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss, Matt O’Leary, Noah Segan, Meagan Good, Emilie de Ravin. With Richard Roundtree and Lukas Haas. Casting by Shannon Makhanian. Costume Designer, Michele Posch. Music by Nathan Johnson. Production Designer, Jodie Tillen. Director of Photography, Steve Yedlin. Co-Producers, Dana Lustig, Susan Dynner, Angela Roessel. Executive Producers, Lisa Johnson, Craig Johnson, Norman Dreyfuss, Marcie Campbell. Produced by Ram Bergman, Mark G. Mathis. Written and Directed by Rian Johnson. A Focus Features Release.

Brick Talk: “It’s duck soup for you yegs”

(A partial glossary of words and phrases used in Brick, and their definitions)

Blow – to leave, depart; e.g., “Did she blow last night?”

Bulls – cops; e.g., “What first, tip the bulls?”; also, as a verb, to turn over to the cops; e.g., “I bulled the rat.”

Burg (or Burgh) – town, city; e.g., “He knows every two-bit toker in the burg.”

Copped – stole; e.g., “She copped the junk.”

Dose – to take drugs; e.g., “He dosed off the bad junk and it laid him out.”

Duck soup – easy pickings.

Gat – gun.

Gum – to mess things up; e.g., “Bulls would only gum it.”

Heel – to walk away from (, and show your heels to); e.g., “I’m not heeling you to hook you.”

Hop; Jake; Junk – drugs.

Pick – a ride in a car (as in “pick-up”); e.g., “Did she get a pick?”

Reef worm – a stoner (abbrev. of “reefer”).

Scape – a patsy to take the blame (abbrev. of “scapegoat”).

Scraped – begged off of, cadged from; e.g., “Ask any dope rat where their junk sprang and they’ll say they scraped it off [name]…”

Shamus – a private detective.

Shine – to wield (as with a weapon); e.g., “He shines a blade.”

Sprang – originated; e.g., “His gat sprang from Tugger’s gang.”