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bricking

/ˈbɹɪkɪŋ/

bricking noun: the act of pelting with bricks. Also the present participle and gerund of brick.

Noun

bricking (countable and uncountable, plural brickings)

  1. The 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. The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
  3. 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.

Also used as

bricking is also the present participle and gerund of brick.

Forms of bricking

pluralbrickings

Phrases with bricking

Words that rhyme with bricking

Questions about bricking

What does bricking mean?
Bricking means the act of pelting with bricks.
What part of speech is bricking?
Bricking is a noun.
How do you pronounce bricking?
Bricking is pronounced /ˈbɹɪkɪŋ/.
What is the plural of bricking?
The plural of bricking is brickings.

Words near bricking in the dictionary

  1. brickie
  2. brickier
  3. brickies
  4. brickiest
  5. brickiness
  6. bricking
  7. bricking in
  8. bricking it
  9. bricking off
  10. bricking oneself
  11. bricking over

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