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bricking

  • /ˈbɹɪkɪŋ/

Rhymes with -ɪkɪŋ

noun brickings

  1. countable, uncountable The act of pelting with bricks. […] the severity of some of these brickings the soldiers have to endure […]
  2. countable, uncountable The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
  3. countable, uncountable A 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. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of brick

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@misc{bricking_2026,
  title = {bricking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bricking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}