1. Avoiding or neglecting a duty or responsibility
   "His colleagues resented his goldbricking while they worked hard";
   - shirking, slacking, goofing off [N. Amer, informal]

1. Avoid (one's assigned duties)
   "The derelict soldier goldbricked his duties";
   - fiddle, shirk
    
2. Deprive of by deceit
   "The contractor goldbricked us on the repairs";
   - swindle, rook, diddle [informal], bunco [N. Amer, informal], defraud, scam [informal], mulct, hornswoggle [N. Amer, informal], short-change, con [informal], ream [N. Amer, informal], grift [N. Amer, informal], bunko [N. Amer, informal], fleece [informal]

Type of: avoid, cheat, chisel [informal], dodging, escape, evasion, rip off [informal]

Encyclopedia: Goldbricking