bricking
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɹɪkɪŋ/
Noun
bricking (plural brickings)
- 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 […]
- (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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