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Bricking

//ˈbɹɪkɪŋ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of pelting with bricks. countable, uncountable

    "[…] the severity of some of these brickings the soldiers have to endure […]"

  2. 2
    The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change. countable, uncountable
  3. 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. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of brick form-of, gerund, participle, present

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