brick, v.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

brick v.²

also bricker

[note bus-drivers’ jargon make a brick, to defraud London Transport]

to steal, to filch; to cheat.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 134/1: brick v. [...] 3. To cheat or defraud [...] Hence bricker, a cheat or defrauder. since (?) ca. 1920.