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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

It is probably still best to leave Watch betas to the brave though — some reports of bricking describe an infinitely spinning loading screen, which this process may not be able to fix.

From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 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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