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Noun: redbrick university
Usage: UK, informal
  1. A provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University
    "He studied engineering at a redbrick university in the Midlands"

Derived forms: redbrick universities

Type of: school [N. Amer], uni [Brit, informal], university

Encyclopedia: Redbrick university