bricking

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɹɪkɪŋ/

Verb

bricking

  1. present participle and gerund of brick

Noun

bricking (plural brickings)

  1. The act of pelting with bricks.
    • 1998, Edward Denmark, Not for Queen and Country, page 153:
      [] the severity of some of these brickings the soldiers have to endure []
  2. (law) 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.
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