bricking

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of pelting with bricks.

   “[…] the severity of some of these brickings the soldiers have to endure […]”

2. (countable, uncountable)The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
3. (countable, uncountable)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.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of brick