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brickbats

Syllables: brick·batsUK/ˈbɹɪkbæts/US/ˈbɹɪkˌbæts/

brickbats noun: small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets. Also the plural of brickbat.

Noun

brickbats pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets.

Also used as

brickbats is also the plural of brickbat.

brickbats is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of brickbat.

Origin of brickbats

From brickbat + -s. The plural only sense (“small rocky particles moving as a group in space”) was coined by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) and is used chiefly in reference to his writings.

Phrases with brickbats

Questions about brickbats

What does brickbats mean?
Brickbats means small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets.
What part of speech is brickbats?
Brickbats is a noun.
How do you pronounce brickbats?
Brickbats is pronounced /ˈbɹɪkbæts/ (UK).

Words near brickbats in the dictionary

  1. brick-wall limiter
  2. brick-wall limiters
  3. brickable
  4. Brickaville
  5. brickbat
  6. brickbats
  7. brickbatted
  8. brickbatting
  9. brickbattings
  10. brickclay
  11. brickclays

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