Definition
Of a man, having a muscular body, particularly with well-developed muscles of the chest, arms and abdominals.
Of a woman, having an athletic or muscular body; often implying also having large breasts or an attractive body.
Origins
From the figurative extension of the idea that an outhouse is overbuilt if one builds it with bricks.
In Context
- "With a nickname that aptly translates to "Tree Stump" in Portugese,^([sic]) Palhares is built like a brick shit-house."
- "Sonia is a hot young blonde who is built like a brick shithouse! She is stacked and well put together."
Also Said As
- built like a brick outhouse
- built like a brick shipyard
- able-bodied
- athletic
- Atlantean
- beefy
- beefed out
- brawny
- brolic
- buff
- built
- built like a brick shithouse
- built like a tank
- buirdly
- burly
- Cyclopean
- deep-rooted
- dench
- diced
- fit
- gigantic
- Herculean
- hale
- hearty
- hench
- husky
- in shape
- jacked
- lusty
- like a giant refreshed
- made of iron
- muscular
- muscled
- muscleful
- ripped
- rugged
- sculpted
- sinewy
- strapping
- strong as a lion
- strong as a horse
- strong as an ox
- strong as brandy
- swole
- toned
- virile
- well-built
- well-fed
- well-knit
- wiry