bricking

British

/ ˈbrɪkɪŋ /

noun

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

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bricking

Brick has an app, but there’s nothing to do in it except select which apps get bricked and then activate the bricking functionality.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

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

Three years later he was bricking under pressure again, going two for 13 to send the 2018 Warriors back to the Finals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

“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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