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bricking it

bricking it is the present participle and gerund of brick it.

Meaning of brick it

Verb

brick it (third-person singular simple present bricks it, present participle bricking it, simple past and past participle bricked it)

  1. (slang, vulgar) To be scared; to be terrified.
    • The first time I performed in public I was bricking it.

Questions about bricking it

What is bricking it the present participle and gerund of?
Bricking it is the present participle and gerund of brick it.

Words near bricking it in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bricking it (page history and authors); brick it (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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