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brickings

brickings is the plural of bricking.

Meaning of bricking

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.

Questions about brickings

What is brickings the plural of?
Brickings is the plural of bricking.

Words near brickings in the dictionary

  1. bricking it
  2. bricking off
  3. bricking oneself
  4. bricking over
  5. bricking up
  6. brickings
  7. brickish
  8. brickkiln
  9. brickkilns
  10. bricklaid
  11. bricklay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brickings (page history and authors); bricking (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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