bricking

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/ˈbɹɪkɪŋ/

noun

The act of pelting with bricks.

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Meanings

nounbricking (countable and uncountable, plural brickings)

plural brickings

  1. countableuncountableThe act of pelting with bricks.

    […] the severity of some of these brickings the soldiers have to endure […]

    1998, Edward Denmark, Not for Queen and Country, page 153
  2. countableuncountablebusinessThe state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
  3. countableuncountablebusinessA type of return fraud in which a working electronic item is purchased, then deliberately damaged or stripped of valuable components in order to render it unusable, and then returned to the merchant for a refund as a profit.
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of brick

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with bricking

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APA

bricking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bricking

MLA

“bricking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bricking. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bricking,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bricking.

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