Brickbats

//ˈbɹɪkbæts// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets. informal, plural, plural-only
  2. 2
    plural of brickbat form-of, plural
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of brickbat form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Synonyms

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Etymology

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.

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