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  • present participle of brick.

bricking

British  
/ ˈbrɪkɪŋ /

noun

  1. slang the falsification of evidence in order to bring a criminal charge

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Unless they agreed, users were blocked from access to the Roku menu and apps, essentially bricking their devices.

From New York Times Mar. 20, 2024

Is your smartphone inexplicably bricking whenever you try to open your favorite app?

From Scientific American Aug. 17, 2023

Now, Amazon is following a well-established pattern of companies bricking smart home hardware because they no longer want to support its ecosystem.

From The Verge May 30, 2022

Maybe all of this suggests one of many reasons the same coaches keep getting hired over and over: The same guys get to keep bricking hires over and over.

From Slate Mar. 9, 2021

“He must have told her about the tunnel, because when I went by it this morning, the legionnaires were bricking it closed.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

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