Brickbats
/ˈbɹɪkbæts/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets. informal, plural, plural-only
- 2 plural of brickbat form-of, plural
Verb
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of brickbat form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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.